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Creating Country Music:
Fabricating AuthenticityBy Richard A. Peterson
Who & What is country?
Fiddlin John Carson (1923)
Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
Hillbillies
Blinkey Brothers BandLater: Dixie Clod Hoppers
The Carter Family
The Fruit Jar Drinkers
Before After
Barn Dances/Fiddling Contests
Mellie Dunham with Henry Ford
George Hay “Uncle’ Jimmy Thompson
Participants, including Fiddlin’ John Carson at the right, at the 1925 Mountain City, Tennessee Old Time Fiddling Contest sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan.