Step It Up and Go
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Step It Up and Go

The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

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Step It Up and Go

The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

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This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state's music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina's Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina's sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781469659367
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Prologue: March 1991
  8. 1. Linthead Pop: Charlie Poole, the Father of Mill-Town Rock (and the First Rock Star)
  9. 2. Step It Up and Go: Blind Boy Fuller, Durham, and the Piedmont Blues
  10. 3. Through the Airwaves: Arthur Smith in Charlotte
  11. 4. Rocket Man: Earl Scruggs and the Birth of Bluegrass
  12. 5. From Gospel to Rhythm and Blues: The “5” Royales and the Rise of a New African American Sound
  13. 6. The American Folk Revival Comes to North Carolina: Doc Watson
  14. 7. Breaking Color Lines at the Beach: The Embers and Beach Music
  15. 8. The Eight-Track Era of Rock and Roll: Nantucket’s Long Way to the Top
  16. 9. Combo Corner: Mitch Easter’s Winston-Salem
  17. 10. Chapel Hill: The “Next Seattle” Era
  18. 11. How to Make It in the Music Business without Really Trying: Colonial, Sugar Hill, and Merge Records
  19. 12. Y’alternative: The Rise of Americana
  20. 13. Salvation Songs: The Avett Brothers
  21. 14. Songs of Immigrants and Emigrants: From Nina Simone to the Kruger Brothers
  22. 15. Hip-Hop Goes to College: 9th Wonder and Little Brother
  23. 16 Famous on Television: Scotty McCreery, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, and American Idol
  24. Epilogue: September 2013
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Readings
  27. Selected Discography
  28. Index
  29. Back Cover