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Drums have never featured in bluegrass. Mr Cantwell conjectures that "drums have been supressed since slavery days" in favour of melody instruments for "fear of the African drum and its power to inspire insurrection". may be Rap music, which still has the power among blacks to incite to acts of violence, as witnessed often in the U.S. Despite influences to its style, bluegrass music remains true to the character, values and soul of the early Scots-Irish and English pioneers.

Many bluegrass musicians today are from the Appalachian region and remain loyal to its traditions. Bands are often formed around families (The Lewis Family, The McLain Family) or brothers (Stanley Brothers, Osborne Brothers). For Mr. Cantwell, "...If the bluegrass band is not actually a family, it is one symbolically. It is patriarchal and masculine, a band of phone number list fathers and sons acting in defense of on behalf of and even sometimes in spite of, home, where of course, women reside. Symbolically the band is usually absent from home; an embassy of men sent from one household to another to defend a sister's honor, or a kind of junta, established to declare the rule of law in lawless territory, or only dad and the boys out all night on a coon hunt." (p.164)

This is the type of family America will need more of if she is to survive in any recognizable form. Mr. Cantwell juxtaposes this family to the jazz band, which is not a family but "a confederacy, a faction or fellowship formed out of rage....The old jazz band eventually disintigrated...sending out agents of improvisional espionage into the sanctuaries of European music to weaken and finally destroy such structures as rhythm and tonality." (p.165)