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re: Question: is there any other music around the world that celebrates violence?
Posted on 1/6/21 at 10:45 am to Kujo
Posted on 1/6/21 at 10:45 am to Kujo
Murder ballads, which are very much thought of as country/bluegrass/Appalachian have their roots in Europe and the British Isles.
One of the more well known, The Knoxville Girl (best known from the Louvin Brothers Tragic Songs of Life album) is based on an Irish ballad - The Wexford Girl - which was itself a derivative of the English ballad The Bloody Miller or Hanged I Shall Be. The English version was probably derived from even earlier poems.
There is actually a book called I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song that traces some of the history.
One of the more well known, The Knoxville Girl (best known from the Louvin Brothers Tragic Songs of Life album) is based on an Irish ballad - The Wexford Girl - which was itself a derivative of the English ballad The Bloody Miller or Hanged I Shall Be. The English version was probably derived from even earlier poems.
There is actually a book called I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song that traces some of the history.
Posted on 1/6/21 at 11:20 am to PJinAtl
Pantera celebrates kicking arse.
Posted on 1/6/21 at 1:41 pm to PJinAtl
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Murder ballads
I was going to mention murder ballads as well.
These date back centuries in the UK, and Scandinavia. England has a long tradition of ballads telling the tales of outlaws. There are songs about Robin Hood that date back to around 1600.
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