Czech Bluegrass

Notes from the Heart of Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvLee Bidgood

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Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music's emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities. Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that merges intimate immersion in the music with on-the-ground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician. Drawing on his own close personal and professional interactions, Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice. He also reflects on "Americanist" musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities. Bidgood sees these acts of construction as a response to the Czech Republic's postsocialist environment but also to US cultural prominence within our global mediascape.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-09-11
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
MedarbetareTrischka,Tony
ISBN9780252041457

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CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Tony TrischkaIntroduction1. Place, Meaning, Community, and In-Betweenness2. Czech Bluegrass Histories and Backgrounds3. Making Bluegrass at Home, Abroad, and In Between4. Learning and Playing Americanness on the Fiddle5. Singing Truth, Fidelity, and Play in Czech Bluegrass GospelA Tag: America/AmerikaNotes on LanguageNotesGlossary of Czech TermsReferencesRecommended MediaIndex

"Lee Bidgood is the first person to do a serious accounting of the forces, political and artistic, that have contributed to the popularity of this outlier music in this unlikely locale. By putting himself in the narrative, one gets an up close and personal sense of the various aspects of the bluegrass and old-time music wave that has swept across the Czech and Slovakian musical landscapes for years--and still counting." --Tony Trischka, from the foreword "Many readers will appreciate both the high level of insight, and that the text makes its points using only 124 pages. Ethnographic works about contemporary music traditions are needed, and Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe is a valuable tool, helping those interested in bluegrass music understand the rooting of the style in multiple cultures."--Journal of Folklore Research "Bidgood's personalized analysis adds a significant, scholarly piece to the bigger picture of bluegrass as an international phenomenon."--Bookreporter