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	Bakersfield sound: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language" (van der merwe 1989, p.3)....
		Bakersfield country was a reaction against the slick, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The nashville sound in country music arose during the 1950s in the united states....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bakersfield_sound.htm (583 words)

	Bakersfield sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The town, known mainly for agriculture and oil production, was the destination for many Dust Bowl migrants and others from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and other parts of the western South.
		In the early 1960s, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, among others, brought the Bakersfield sound to mainstream audiences, and it soon became one of the most popular kinds of country music, also influencing later country stars such as Dwight Yoakam.
		Bakersfield sound - Bluegrass - Close harmony - Country blues - Honky tonk - Jug band - Lubbock sound - Nashville sound - Outlaw country
	www.redding.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bakersfield_sound (265 words)

	ipedia.com: Bluegrass music Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The bluegrass style was invented in the first half of the 20th century by mandolinist Bill Monroe and named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed 1939.
		The fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar or folk guitar, mandolin, and upright bass are sometimes joined by the dobro (also known as a resophonic guitar), and a bass guitar is occasionally substituted for the upright bass.
		Besides instrumentation, the distinguishing characteristics of bluegrass include vocal harmonies featuring two, three, or four parts, often featuring a dissonant or modal sound in the highest voice; an emphasis on traditional songs, often with sentimental or religious themes; and improvised instrumental solos.
	www.ipedia.com /bluegrass_music.html (381 words)

	Articles - Bluegrass music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Besides instrumentation, the distinguishing characteristics of bluegrass include vocal harmonies featuring two, three, or four parts, often featuring a dissonant or modal sound in the highest voice (see modal frame); an emphasis on traditional songs, often with sentimental or religious themes.
		The 1945 addition of banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with a three-finger roll now known as "Scruggs style," is pointed to as the key moment in the development of this genre.
		By some arguments, as long as the Blue Grass Boys were the only band playing this music, it was just their unique style; it could not be considered a musical genre until other bands began performing the same style.
	www.jazzcomplete.com /articles/Bluegrass_music (1717 words)

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