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Music of Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 's musical history is diverse and substantial; the state's musicians include Southern rap groups such as Outkast and Goodie Mob, as well as a wide variety of rock, pop, blues, and country artists such as the late Ray Charles, Otis Redding, James Brown, and The Allman Brothers Band.
The folk music of Georgia consists of at least fifteen regional styles, known in Georgian musicology and ethnomusicology as "musical dialects". According to Edisher Garaqanidze, there are sixteen regional styles in Georgia. [ 1] These sixteen regions are traditionally grouped into two, eastern and western Georgian groups.
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A rich variety of musical instruments are known from Georgia. Among the most popular instruments are blown instruments, like the soinari, known in Samegrelo as larchemi (Georgian panpipe ), stviri ( flute ), gudastviri ( bagpipe ), string instruments like changi ( harp ), chonguri (four stringed unfretted long neck lute ), panduri (three ...
Pylon (band), founded in 1979, was an American new wave/post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, United States. [ 36] The band's danceable sound, a blend of new wave, post-punk, jangle pop, [ 37] alternative rock and funk rock, [ 38] influenced the Athens music scene and the 1980s American pop underground. AllMusic wrote that Pylon's "role as elder ...
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame's permanent exhibit space was designed to resemble a Georgia town where venues such as the Jazz and Swing Club, Vintage Vinyl, and Rhythm & Blues Revue house artifacts, interpretive text, and audio-visual elements.
Georgia was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on January 2, 1788. [1] Before it declared its independence, Georgia was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain . It seceded from the Union on January 19, 1861, [ 2 ] and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. [ 3 ]
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