American Primitivism

American Primitivism

American Primitivism, also known as "American Primitive Guitar", is the guitar music genre started by John Fahey in the late 1950s. Fahey composed and recorded avant-garde/neo-classical compositions using traditional country blues fingerpicking techniques, which had previously been used primarily to accompany vocals. Other famous early proponents were Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang who all played at one time or another on Fahey's Takoma Records label.

Quotes

". . . The New Age people call it Folk; the Folk people call it New Age, but it is really neither. It's transitional. The style is derived from the country blues and string band music of the 20's and 30's, however much of the music is contemporary. Fahey referred to it as 'American Primitive' after the 'French Primitive' painters, meaning untutored." [cite web |url=http://www.folkrocks.com/PeterLang.html |title=Peter Lang on American Primitive Guitar |accessdate=2007-09-27 |format= |work= ]

"...Fahey suggested the idea of joining similar themes, and exploring both time and space. He also wanted me to try using dissonance and minor tunings. Maybe the biggest thing he put into me was the idea that a major part of music exists in the space between notes and chords." [cite web |url=http://www.folkrocks.com/peterlangguitaristarticle.html |title=Peter Lang on Fahey's influence on his playing |accessdate=2007-09-27 |format= |work= ]

Notable proponents

*John Fahey
*Leo Kottke
*Peter Lang
*Robbie Basho
*Steffen Basho-Junghans
*Jack Rose
*Ben Chasny
*Sean Smith
*Sir Richard Bishop
*James Blackshaw
*Andrew Stranglen
*Terry Robb
*Dale Miller
*Michael Gulezian [http://www.timbrelinemusic.com]
*Pat O'Connell
*Bob Hadley
*Tetsui Akiyama
*Wayne Lopes

References

External links

* [http://www.nickschillace.com/thesis/ John Fahey and American Primitivism: Nick Schillace's Master's Thesis ]
* [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/fahey.html Fahey discography and short essay on american primitive guitar]


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