Dialect music

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Dialect music refers to music whose texts are written in a local dialect instead of using the standard language . The use of dialects can be observed particularly in folk music and - far less often - in folk music , but is not limited to these genres. The use of dialect is also characteristic of new folk music . Dialect rock as a branch of dialect music denotes rock music , sung in one of the various dialects of the German language .

Germany

Since there are many different dialects in Germany, there are also numerous groups that make music in dialect. The spectrum ranges from traditional folk music to folk music to rock music and crossover.

Early dialect groups known supraregionally are for example Spider Murphy Gang ( Bavarian dialect ) and Rodgau Monotones ( Neuhessischer Regiolekt ).

Hessian dialect

Since 1995 there has been in Frankfurt with REZI * BABBEL, the Frankfurt dialect recitation theater, dialect programs around Friedrich Stoltze (1816–1891) and others. a. 19th century dialect poet.

The songs of the new Middle Hessian dialect groups Odermennig ( Hessian hinterland ) in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and the Fäägmeel and KORK ( Gießen district ) and Ulmtaler ( Lahn-Dill district ) groups still largely correspond to the regional base dialects of Central and Upper Hesse, albeit these dialects in a developing Neuhessisch along the economic traffic relationships (mockingly " RMV -Hessisch") rise in the south. The rock band Rodgau Monotones , the comedy groups Badesalz and Mundstuhl use Neuhessian.

Ripuarian dialect

In Cologne and the surrounding area there are a large number of musicians and bands who sing or have sung songs in the local dialect Kölsch . One can essentially differentiate between two parallel music styles:

Cologne hits, carnival and folk songs

There were and are in the Rhineland, especially in Cologne, a large number of interpreters of songs that in the German-speaking area would be classified in the areas of folk music and hits. These songs are mostly cheerful and an integral part of the Cologne Carnival . They are sung there both on stage and by the revelers in the pubs, but they are not necessarily carnival songs in the strict sense. In the first half of the 20th century (e.g. Willi Ostermann ) the songs had almost exclusively folk song character. In the seventies, bands (e.g. the Bläck Fööss ) began to write Cologne pop songs, which today sometimes have the character of folk songs themselves (e.g. In our Veedel ). At the same time, folk song-like currents developed in the direction of carnival hits, most of which today have high German texts. Within this entire area, the boundaries with regard to the creation and use of the songs are unclear and fluid.

Kölschrock

As Koelsch rock music direction is referred to, the singing of rock songs in Ripuarian dialect ( Koelsch ) or related dialects (z. B. Bönnsch ), respectively. Kölschrock has nothing to do with carnival, neither musically nor thematically, and is to be distinguished from Cologne dialect " Folk " like many songs by Bläck Fööss , Paveier or Höhner . The group BAP and Brings from Cologne, who are considered pioneers of Kölschrock, are very well known .

Electoral Palatinate dialect

In Mannheimer dialect sang Joy Fleming as one of the first texts to jazz and blues. The sons of Mannheim also use dialect. In 1901 Otto Oppenheimer published the well-known hit "Der Brusler Dorscht". The band Café Achteck from Bruchsal sings almost exclusively in Brusler Gosch.

Bavaria and the Alpine region in general

Alpine folk music has traditionally been strongly cultivated. Since the 1970s, alpine rock has been added, a style of music in which musical elements and instruments of traditional folk music are combined with rock music , later also crossover and song texts in alpine dialects.

Since the 1970s, comparable directions have emerged in Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. The first representatives in Bavaria were Willy Michl and in Switzerland the groups Span and Rumpelstilz . An early form of alpine rock in Austria was Austropop, with performers like Wolfgang Ambros . At the same time as the Neue Deutsche Welle in the 1980s, Austropop and dialect rock experienced a second phase. With the so-called new folk music since the early 1990s, alpine rock, represented for example by Attwenger or Hubert von Goisern , became known to a wider audience.

Swabian dialect

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Austria

In Austria, which has a long history of folk music and a relatively large market for folk music based on modern light music, dialect music was able to establish itself on the mass market as a serious musical genre in the early 1990s. Around the pioneer Hubert von Goisern , artists like Zabine or bands like Attwenger or Gnackwatschn were able to develop, who can inspire fans of the genre of new folk music with texts written and performed completely in dialect . In the hip-hop genre, the group Texta in particular has made a name for itself outside of Austria, while the band Drescher is successful in metal with its crossover of thrash metal and folk music ("Dresch Metal") .

Switzerland

The lyrics to Swiss dialect music are written in a Swiss German dialect. A well-known representative of the Swiss dialect singers is the Bernese Mani Matter , who in turn was inspired by the French chansonnier Georges Brassens . Together with the Bernese troubadours , he shaped dialect songwriting in Switzerland.

Swiss dialect rock was originally strongly influenced by music groups from Bern and Zurich. Today, however, dialect rock is sung in all Swiss dialects . The dialect rock was strongly influenced by Toni Vescoli , Polo Hofer with the Rumpelstilz and the groups Minstrels and Span . A real boom in dialect music began with the Bern bands Züri West , Patent Ochsner and Stiller Has , which reached a temporary high point with the success of the Bernese singer Gölä from 1998 to 2002. Never before in the history of modern light music have so many Swiss music formations appeared in the Swiss hit parade. With Schtärneföifi (musician of the band Baby Jail) from 1995 and Roland Zoss (musician of the rock band Span ) from 1999, the first punk, resp. Rock bands for children. Fusion Square Garden from Bern dedicated itself to the dialect reggae, like for example the Zurich Phenomden or Elijah . Other well-known bands and performers with Swiss-German lyrics are Plüsch , Sina , Mash , Stahlberger , Min King, Hecht , Florian Ast and Adrian Stern .

Stephan Eicher , also from Bern, has established himself as one of the most famous Swiss in France. He sings mainly French and Bern German , but also English, Italian and German, for example with Herbert Grönemeyer . The songwriters Tinu Heiniger and Roland Zoss as well as Jürg Halter alias Kutti MC move between literature and music . Formations such as Big Zis , Wurzel 5 , Gimma and Bligg became popular in the hip-hop genre .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Background to Cologne bands - from geschichte.nrw.de
  2. A short history of alpine rock on the Hubert von Goisern website
  3. Article about alpine rocker Hubert von Goisern in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  4. ^ Official website of the band Gnackwatschn