american country music quiz 4

stanza

unit of a text, often consisting of four lines, but stanzas of three, five, six, or more lines are also common

perfect rhyme

vowel and consonant are both the same or each ends with the same sound

partial ryhme categories

assonance or consonance

assonance

vowel sounds match but ending consonant sounds dont (cup/tub)

partial ryhme

end consonant sounds match, but vowel sounds do not

alliteration

starts with the same letter (peter piper picked)

double rhyme

passion/fashion

triple ryhme

allison’s in gavelston (three consecutive syllabus that rhyme)

two basic categories of love songs in country music

happy vs unhappy

happy songs about romantic love can include

celebrate being in a good relationship, infatuation/crush/interest, and redemption

unhappy songs about romantic love

struggling, deciding the relationship wont work, unrequited love, trying to deal with love, regret, Honky tonk traditions songs

how do country songs address love differently than other genres

they are more honest and deep about love

third person or omniscient POV

the story is being told in first person by an unamed character who knows everything

first person POV

an individual telling their own perspective

dialogue

usually mixed in with third person, a conversation between two people

audience address

the singing voice is speaking directly to the listener

addressing oneself

talking to yourself as if you were telling a story to someone else

humble and kind (2016) tim mcgraw

this song tells the story life and how important it is to stay humble and kind throughout your entire life. it goes through the story of life but focuses on the importance of sticking to your goood traits.

the house that built me miranda lambert

this song is about a girl going back and visiting her childhood home. it is a very powerful song that shows the true emotions of going back to your childhood home. she wants to find herself through this.

dixie chicks “goodbye earl”

this song is about a woman who was being abused, and the girls decided to kill earl. they basoically explsin how and why they killed earl. this is a very good example of a song telling a story

gone country by alan jackson

this is a song about a girl going back to her roots and becoming country again after not being country for a long time

murder on music row by george striat and alan jackson

this song claims that modern music “murdered” traditional music. it tells the story of how this happened and is a play on words to show how many mucisians felt about modern music

Humble and Kind and the 1928 Carter Family song Keep on the Sunny Side (access in Kaltura: Media Gallery, 2. Unit 2 to review) are both message songs and communicate using audience address. Explain what a message song is, and what audience address means.

a message song is something that tells a story and the audience address is when the artistis talking directly to the listener or audience

Google the lyrics for the 1927 Carter Family song John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man. Why does it make sense to classify this song as a part of the English Celtic ballad tradition (specifically it’s a “murder ballad.”)? Briefly review slides 17-28 (mostly these are maps) of the 1. Unit 1 PowerPoint Slide set. Why does it make sense to classify Goodbye Earl exactly the same way (as an English Celtic tradition murder ballad? Like most ballads, John Hardy is strophic, but Goodbye Earl is not—it has a chorus. How did the songwriter avoid the problem of having the chorus interrupt the flow of the story in Goodbye Earl?

It makes sense to call John Hardy Was a desperate Little Man a ballad tradition because it tells the story of the murder of John Hardy, which was a story passed down for ages. It focuses on tragic real life events. Goodbye Earl is a traditional murder ballad because it tells the story of a murder and follows the characters. Goodbye earl’s chorus doesnt effect it because it changes throughout the song and still follows the story

What is the main expressed idea in Gone Country? How do the verses and chorus convey the main idea? In other words, what technique do they use?

the main idea of this song is going back to your roots and finding yourself. the verses and chorus talk about this and use different examples of people to show this. they tell a story to show this

Look at (google) the lyrics for Redneck Woman. It is often said that this enormously popular 2004 song almost “officially” formalized the adoption of southern rock into the country music tradition (remember, southern rock, born in the 1970s was not thought of as country music at the time). What evidence for that is in the lyrics?

name dropping: lynrd skynrd, george strait, charlie daniels

lots of cussing, talking about alcohol, and defying nashville country trends

I have emphasized the importance of country music instrumentation throughout the semester. The lyrics for Murder on Music Row (which won the CMA song of the year and vocal event of the year award in 2000-1) talks specifically about country music instrumentation. According to the song, what was happening to country music instrumentation in 2000 and before?

“For the steel guitars no longer cry and fiddles barely play”

This song is basially saying country music is changing and becoming more modern with drums and other new instruments. They are basically saying the new style has murdered old country

Country music (as you certainly know by now and probably did before you took the ACM course) is strongly traditionalist, meaning that a strong respect for the past is inherent in the music. The House That Built Me focuses on how respecting the past is perhaps necessary for a person’s mental well-being. Elaborate on and explain this, using quotes from the song lyrics.

I think song shows that knowing where you came from and being grateful for what you were given is important to stay grounded and remember who you are. Some lyrics I would point out are, “I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here, it's like I'm someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself”, “If I could walk around, I swear I'll leave Won't take nothin' but a memory
From the house that built me”