Bob Dylan, became a spokesperson for a whole generation with his socially conscious music with songs like Blowin' in the Wind. Saint Cloud's own Bobby Vee, for instance, became a popular representative of the carefree youth culture of the 1960s with songs like Take Good Care of My Baby, but Hibbing's Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. But the state's musical icons were a diverse crowd. Minnesota's musical notoriety did not stop with "our grandparents," but only grew after World War II to form something of a "North Star Hit Parade." Popular Minnesota acts like Judy Garland (Somewhere Over the Rainbow) and The Merry Macs (Sentimental Journey) gained international notoriety during the war years and beyond. These tangled immigrant roots, so familiar to our grandparents, fleshed out Minnesota's grand musical reputation as well as its cosmopolitan sensibility. The Andrews Sisters, daughters of a Greek immigrant, gained fame with Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, itself written by a Jewish composer in German and Yiddish. Melius Christiansen (Beautiful Savior) helped earn Minnesota a reputation for choral and sacred music. Polka music popularized by acts like Whoopee John Wilfahrt (In Heaven There is No Beer) emerged from distinct ethnic polka styles found throughout Minnesota, while Norwegian-American composer F. It also became a way for immigrants to make their own impressions on their adopted state. Hope and pride for the future could mix with profound uncertainty, hardship, and longing for homelands. Moses HogaĪt the same time, songs like The Ballad of Oleana, Die Lorelei, and Halsa dem dr hemma showed how life on the frontier could be challenging, particularly for immigrants. My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord (arr. MP3 Downloads: (Right-click and "save-as") Civil War the first state to offer troops to the Union cause in 1861, including the storied First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment. The Hutchinson Family Singers, who lent their name to their own town in Minnesota, were in many ways the first popular American musical group their own original songs (like Uncle Sam's Farm) and songs they helped popularize (like Battle Hymn of the Republic) sounded out the Yankee optimism and reformer's idealism that pushed for Minnesota Statehood in 1858 and galvanized the young state in the fire of the U.S.
On the other hand, songs like Uncle Sam's Farm and The Battle Hymn of the Republic give sound to the creation of the state itself. One can spy the mighty voyageurs, French-Canadians and MA is, which traversed the area that later became Minnesota, syncopating their oar strokes with traditional tunes like Envoyons de l'Avant. In "Songs of Our Grandparents," the emphasis has fallen on reconstructing the musical world of Minnesota's preceding generations.
How should one sum up a whole state, from farm to woodlands, from Native Americans to recent immigrants, from imported folk songs to popular music? This embarrassment of musical riches has required VocalEssence and its leaders to devise two medleys to pay homage to the North Star State's wealth of music. So many social and ethnic groups have been instrumental in the founding and development of the state that laying out a quintessential musical history could tire an audience.
Minnesota's musical heritage defies easy categories or glib summary.
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