Music of North Carolina

This article is a supplemental part of the Music of the United States series.

Roots music: before 1940

1940s and 50s

1960s and 70s

1980s to the present

African-American music

Native American music

Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian, Cajun, Puerto Rican and other immigrants

Most influentially, North Carolina country musicians like the North Carolina Ramblers helped solidify the sound of country in the late 1920s.

Punk rock

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill was a regional center for punk rock, due to its large number of college students. The most famous was Corrosion of Conformity, who followed in the footsteps of area pioneers Th' Cigaretz. Later hardcore punk bands included No Labels, Colcor, Stillborn Christians and Oral Fixation.

References

Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. 2001. ISBN 0-922915-717-7