Part one of term paper
Bluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly Appalachia. Bluegrass features acoustic string band instrume ...

Part two of term paper
... part above the melody line and baritone and bass voices below (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia). Mandolin player Bill Monroe is viewed as the father of bluegrass. His band, the Bluegrass Boys, began to play regularly on the Grand Ole Opry radio program in Nashville, Tennessee in 1939. By 1945, Monroe's band included Earl Scruggs, who popularized the characteristic three-fingered banjo picking style, guitarist Lester Flatt, and fiddler Chubby Wise. The Scottish-Irish music of southern A ...