{"id":250,"date":"2022-09-30T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:19:06","slug":"the-traditional-music-of-appalachia-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/the-traditional-music-of-appalachia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traditional Music of Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">When we refer to the music and culture of a geographic area, ultimately we designate an ethnicity to the people who live ( or have lived ) there because of the things they share in common that sets them apart from the people outside of it. Among the obvious characteristics such as family, language, food, history and religion, there is <strong>music, dance, songs and stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/appalachia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" width=\"780\" height=\"816\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The region known as Appalachia includes 423 counties across 13 states, all of which physically share the Appalachian Mt range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\">New York&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pennsylvania&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ohio<br>West Virginia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Maryland&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kentucky<br>Virginia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tennessee&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;N Carolina<br>S Carolina&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alabama<br>Mississippi<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Appalachia-population-2010-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" width=\"780\" height=\"460\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">For a deeper look at the history of the people of Appalachia watch this video:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zuOnvK1dwI\">Who are the Appalachians?<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mustrad.org.uk\/articles\/appalach.htm\">Appalachian Traditional Music &#8211; A Short History<\/a><br>from Musical Traditions Internet Magazine (UK)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we refer to the music and culture of a geographic area, ultimately we designate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachianmusic.net\/student\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}