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{{Short description|Old-time music or jazz ensemble}}
{{about|a type of early 20th-century American string ensemble associated with old-time music or jazz|the Virgin Islands fungi ensembles known as "scratch bands"|Fungi (music)}}
A '''string band''' is an [[old-time music]] or [[jazz]] ensemble made up mainly or solely of [[string instruments]]. String bands were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and are among the forerunners of modern [[country music]] and [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]]. While being active countrywide, in [[Philadelphia]] and its surrounding suburbs they are a huge part of its musical culture and traditions, appearing, among others, in the yearly [[Mummers Parade]].
== History of African American old-time string band music ==
Although African American old-time string bands recorded history is that of the early 20th century, the beginnings of the music started much earlier. Many people once believed that the role [[African Americans]] played in the upcoming of old-time string band music was either nonexistent or to interest the [[Middle Ages]] or medieval times. The genre of African American [[folk music]] actually began with the use of [[percussion instrument]]s, which were used to create music in form of encouragement to keep the slaves exercising on [[slave ship]]s. Furthermore, that then sparked the usage of stringed instruments such as [[banjo]]s and [[violin]]s that the slaves played as a way of entertainment.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Epstein|first=Dena|title=Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War|publisher=Urbana: University of Illinois Press|year=1977|pages=9–17; 34; 47; 80}}</ref>
== Instruments in an old-time string band ==
Old-time string bands were mainly composed of [[String instrument|stringed instruments]]. Those instruments being the [[fiddle]], [[Banjo|5-string banjo]], acoustic guitar, and an upright bass/cello. Depending on the type of genre the old-time music is being accompanied by, the stringed instruments may also be joined by other instruments including spoons, washboards, jugs, [[harmonica]], [[harp]]s and [[piano]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/ensembles/old-time-string-band/|access-date=2021-04-21|website=UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music | title = Old-Time String Band }}</ref>
==String bands in old-time music==
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==String bands in jazz==
Artists began to combine and record string-band music in collaboration with other popular styles in the 1920s.
[[Red McKenzie]], who also recorded with Lang, recorded with an influential string band group during the 1930s, the [[Spirits of Rhythm]]. The group consisted of [[tiple]], guitar, homemade percussion, double bass, and often involved [[scat singing]]. The particular form of scat that was eventually associated with string band music was based on Harlem slang, and can be heard in
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