Homegrown Music
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Homegrown Music

Discovering Bluegrass

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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Homegrown Music

Discovering Bluegrass

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With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and parking lot picking, Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print, audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.

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Publisher
Praeger
Year
2004
ISBN
9780313052057
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: O Bluegrass, Where Art Thou?
  6. Chapter 1 Homegrown Music: What Is Bluegrass?
  7. Chapter 2 The Evolution of Bluegrass: A Mosaic of Influences
  8. Chapter 3 Banjo Meets the High Lonesome Sound
  9. Chapter 4 Bluegrass Bends and Blends
  10. Chapter 5 Fiddling to Flatpicking
  11. Chapter 6 Songs of Love, Death, Faith, and Family
  12. Chapter 7 Popular Culture: Got Bluegrass?
  13. Chapter 8 The International Language of Bluegrass
  14. Chapter 9 Up Close: Concerts, Festivals, and Parking Lot Pickin'
  15. Chapter 10 Pick It Up, Pass It On!
  16. Chapter 11 On the Horizon
  17. Chapter 12 Down the Road: Continuing the Tradition
  18. Afterword: Rediscovering Bluegrass
  19. Twenty-Five Recordings to Jump-Start Your Collection ... Plus a Random Sampling of Videos
  20. Where to from Here: Suggested Resources
  21. Selected Works Consulted
  22. Index
  23. A photo essay