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New Acoustic Music is a music genre that blends influences from folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

and world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

and uses only acoustic instruments. Beginning in the 1970's it has been developed by artists such as Bela Fleck

Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

, Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...

Tim Ware

Tim Ware is a composer and musician, born in Sacramento, California.He came to prominence with the release, in 1980, of on Kaleidoscope Records. , working with a number of other talented San Francisco Bay Area musicians, helped define the emerging genre of New Acoustic Music]...

, Tony Rice

Tony Rice

Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

, Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall may refer to:*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball outfielder from 1981-1991*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1967-81...

, Darol Anger

Darol Anger

-Career:Darol Anger entered popular music at the age of 21 as a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Anger played fiddle to David Grisman's mandolin in The David Grisman Quintet's 1977 debut. He co-founded the Turtle Island String Quartet with David Balakrishnan in 1985 and performed,...

and others. http://www.hyperarts.com/mandolin-music/new-acoustic-music.html http://www.tonyrice.com http://home.comcast.net/~mharneyma/na.html http://www.vastesi.com/blog/2010/07/16/new-acoustic-music-festival-xviii-edizione/http://www.newacousticgallery.com/http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-03-08/music/17587074_1_blind-joe-death-michael-hedges-john-fahey

Neil V. Rosenberg (1992) Review: From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: Bluegrass Today The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 105, No. 418, pp. 458-470
Adam Stetson (2006) Expressing Identity in Colorado Bluegrass Music Sub-Culture: Negotiating Modernity in the American West through Music, Humor and Shared Experience.University of Colorado http://www.centerwest.org/academics/write/past/2007/pdf/stetson.pdf
Phil Hood (1986) Artists of American folk music : the legends of traditional folk, the stars of the sixties, the virtuosi of new acoustic music. New York : Quill, ©1986.

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