Fiddler's Dream

Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Howard Wight Marshall, Howard W. Marshall, Howard W Marshall

789 kr

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In this sequel to Howard Marshall’s earlier book on old-time fiddlers in Missouri, Play Me Something Quick and Devilish, the author uses oral history, archival photographs, and transcriptions of selected tunes to trace the evolution of traditional fiddle music in Missouri from the early 1920s through the abrupt changes in American society and traditional music in the 1960s. The book focuses on fiddle music in everyday life at music parties, dances, pie suppers, festivals, contests, and oprys. Marshall’s wealth of knowledge, gained through a lifetime of involvement in Missouri fiddle traditions, gives the book exceptional richness and depth.This book includes a CD with 30 archival recordings from 1939 to 2015, produced by Voyager Records.A Missouri Humanities Council grant helped fund the production of this book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-06-30
Mått156 x 235 x 41 mm
Vikt860 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagUniversity of Missouri Press
ISBN9780826221216

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Carries the reader through an extraordinarily wide range of people and places and introduces each of the many key fiddlers or influencers with the sort of full background information that characterizes deep ethnographic presentation."" - Thomas A. Adler, author of Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals""A rich evocation of Missouri fiddlers and fiddling during the period of greatest change in American musical history."" - Sarah Bryan, folklorist and editor of the Old-Time Herald"Dr Marshall clearly loves and respects his subject matter, and this comes through in all aspects of the book, making it so much more than just an academic work – it’s also a fascinating story about humans, and music, and is well worth having. It really is something special." - Old Time News, Spring 2020