So for this entry of the blog, I decided to briefly put what I found on the topics that interested me for the scavenger hunt. I decided that putting it here would be more convenient for me to look back on before heading to class.
The first term that I researched was “country music”. According to Google Ngram, the earliest time that the phrase was even hinted at was 1872. Which is somewhat surprising, but I decided to do some more research with the ProQuest Newspaper site. The earliest I found was The Sun ad, but that covers a wide range from 1837 to 1992. I decided to keep looking through the results, since they were apparently classified ads. Unfortunately, the words were mostly separate, and the earliest example I could find was in January 4th, 1970. “Who’s Got the last Hee-Haw now?” as a title to a New York Times article. I think I could have found more, but I don’t know ways that I could have narrowed down the search to make it easier. I hope that we learn how (or something similar) this upcoming class.