There is a discussion about whether bluegrass music, a kind of music promoted and developed by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys band from 1950s, is \u201cauthentic\u201d folk music. According to the research I did, by the time bluegrass music had been labeled as \u201cfolk\u201d, the hallmarks of the style (e.g. acoustic instruments, fast tempo and high tenor vocals) included many of the features that had originally made up by Monroe himself, as an \u201coriginal invention\u201d, not a subgenre of \u201cfolk\u201d music or folk revival. However, bluegrass was adopted by the revivalists later as a type of \u201cfolk\u201d music since revivalists subjected bluegrass to ideals of authenticity that have.<\/p>\n
When Steve Rathe interviewed Bill Monroe in Dec. 10, 1973, Bill Monroe first told audience about \u201cwhat bluegrass music is and what elements have gone into its composition\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Ewing, Tom, ed.\u00a0The Bill Monroe Reader<\/i>. University of Illinois Press, 2000.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n