Lizzie Dobbins

 Bluegrass Music  History of Bluegrass:       Bluegrass is made up of the following; American southern string band, Blues, Country, English, Irish, and Scottish traditions.  After World War two the Bluegrass music came out of the rural south even though the music dates back as far as 1930's. Bluegrass gets its name from a man named Bill Monroe's band 'The Bluegrass Boys'. During this time Bluegrass music was about issues prominent in everyday people, such as; religion. love, family, and home. These songs were typically upbeat and happy, but could turn to a darker side of things. Protest songs have even been created in the bluegrass style. Bluegrass was developed from the elements of Old-time music, Traditional Music of the Appalachian regions. The Appalachian regions had many Scottish-American immigrants that brought their musical traditions with them. As the Bluegrass sound spread, the amount of listeners increased for their own sake. Especially after...

The Roles that Gender Plays in Irish Traditional Music        In Ireland traditional music gender plays a huge role, for instance; a woman is less respected than a man, the music itself is unwilling to embrace change, and it is very gender bias towards change. The current instruments used in traditional Irish music are made for the large hands of men. The main priority of Irish traditional music is the music, the etiquette, and its tradition at the sacrifice of those involved, especially women. It is very hard as a woman to be accepted to play music, many times women are too intimidated and fall out of love with traditional Irish music.        A woman's role in Irish traditional music is much different than that of a man. A woman is in charge of teaching, administration and other organizational roles. A woman is under-represented at concerts or playings in the professional world. Not only are they under-represented their learning of trad...