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Western swing
Orígenes musicales	Música folclórica, Folk
Orígenes culturales	Oeste de Estados Unidos
Instrumentos comunes	violín - guitarra - steel guitar - banjo - contrabajo - armónica - piano - tambores
Popularidad	Alta entre los años 30 y 60.
Derivados	Música country
Subgéneros
	Western swing
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La música wéstern se origina como una forma en la música folclórica de Estados Unidos. Originariamente, se componía por y para gente asentada y que trabajaba en el Oeste de Estados Unidos y las praderas canadienses.

Surgida de la fusión de las antiguas baladas folklóricas británicas con la tradición musical hispánica del norte de México y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos, de raíz castellana, la música wéstern celebraba la vida del cowboy de las amplias praderas del oeste de Norteamérica.^[1] La música tradicional hispánica del sudoeste norteamericano, además de influir decisivamente en el género, también se vio influenciada por el desarrollo del mismo.

La música wéstern comparte raíces similares a la música hillbilly o folk de los Apalaches, desarrollada en los montes Apalaches, separada pero paralela al género wéstern. La industria musical de mediados del siglo XX, unió ambos conceptos bajo el nombre de country & western y que más adelante amalgamaría también a la música country.

Algunas Canciones Western

Abilene
Along the Navajo Trail
Along the Santa Fe Trail
Back in the Saddle Again
Ballad of the Alamo
Big Iron
Billy the Kid
Blue Prairie
Blue Shadows on the Trail
Bonanza (tema central)
Buenas Tardes Amigo
Buffalo Gals (Wont You Come Out Tonight?)
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Call of the Canyon
Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
Cattle Call
Cheyenne
Cimarron (Roll On)
Cocaine Blues
Cool Water
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Dont Fence Me In
Dont Take Your Guns to Town
El Paso
El Paso City
Folsom Prison Blues
Ghee on My Hands
Ghost Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)]]
Git Along, Little Dogies
Halfway to Montana
Happy Trails
Hold On
Hold on Little Dogies
Home on the Range
I Ride an Old Paint
I Want to Be a Cowboys Sweetheart
Im an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande
Little Joe the Wrangler
Man Walks Among Us
Night Riders Lament
Oh My Darling, Clementine
Oh! Susanna
Pistol Packin Mama
Red River Valley
Red Wing
Rocky Mountain Express
Rogue River Valley
Running Gun
San Antonio Rose
Sioux City Sue
Song of the Sierras
Strawberry Roan
Streets Of Laredo (The Cowboys Lament)
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Texas Plains
The Cowboys Life
The Last Roundup
The Lone Star Trail
The Masters Call
The Old Chisholm Trail
The Soughrty Peaks
The Wayward Wind
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Utah Carol
Way out There
When the Cactus Is in Bloom
Young Wesley
Zebra Dun

Cantantes Western

Véase también

Western swing, subgénero
List of North American folk music traditions

Referencias

↑ Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, Collector's Note: "Out in the wild, far-away places of the big and still unpeopled west—in the caňons along the Rocky Mountains, among the mining camps of Nevada and Montana, and on the remote cattle ranches of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona—yet survives the Anglo-Saxon ballad spirit that was active in secluded districts in England and Scotland even after the coming of Tennyson and Browning. ... In some such way have been made and preserved the cowboy songs and other frontier ballads contained in this volume."

Bibliografía

Cannon, Hal. Old Time Cowboy Songs. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 0-87905-308-9
Green, Douglas B. Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy. Vanderbilt University Press, August 2002. ISBN 0-8265-1412-X
Hull, Myra. "Cowboy Ballads". Kansas Historical Quarterly. 8:1 (February 1939) 35-60 (accessed November 29, 2007).
Lomax, John A., M.A. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. The MacMillan Company, 1918. Online edition (pdf)
O'Neal, Bill; Goodwin, Fred. The Sons of the Pioneers. Eakin Press, 2001. ISBN 1-57168-644-4
Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys. Early Cowboy Band. British Archive of Country Music, 2006. CD D 139
Quay, Sara E. Westward Expansion. Greenwod Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-31235-4
Shirley, Glenn "Daddy of the Cowboy Bands. Oklahoma Today (Fall 1959), 9:4 6-7, 29.
Thorp, N. Howard "Jack". Songs of the Cowboys. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908, 1921.
White, John I. Git Along Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West. (Music in American Life) series, University of Illinois Press, 1989 reprint. ISBN 0-252-06070-9