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Originally Posted by Andyrondack
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to find out why try jiving to bluegrass music.
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I just listened to some bluegrass songs from my 25 years of Rounder records CD so that must be as authentic bluegrass as it gets.
I don't know if any of you have been to an English Country Dance event but the rythmns of bluegrass sound to me like they developed from 'Barn' dances where everyone dances together and swap partners , whereas Rockabilly is more akin to Swing.
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Good point. Rockabilly mostly swings, while bluegrass rarely does.
And you're quite right about the antecedents of bluegrass (and all American "country") being mostly from British folk music - including Scots and Irish as well as English. But naturally influenced by African-American traditions too - cross-fertilization went both ways.