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The Big Ballad Jamboree (Paperback)
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The Big Ballad Jamboree (Paperback)
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Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad
Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel. He set his story- the
romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk
singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake- in the fictional
western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of
1949. The late forties, just after WWII and before the rise of
national television, are great years for classic country music on
live radio. Yet this Appalachian community is struggling to embrace
a modern commercial economy without losing its folk heritage. In
this setting Davidson draws lively satirical pictures: civic
boosters allied with shameless politicians; a local sheriff, a
barber, and a dean cooperating to protect the image of a college; a
folklore professor seeking fame by promoting a ballad-singing
bootlegger. Seen through the eyes of a country boy with a musical
gift descended from mountain people, this novel is a highbrow art
about memorable lowbrow characters. It is also a great read. Those
who know Davidson as a poet and scholar may be surprised to learn
that he wrote a novel about country music. Here his long romance
with southern folk life and mountain balladry captures the
evolution of hillbilly singers into Grand Ole Opery stars as he
pursues vexing questions about folk authenticity in country music.
Long thought lost, The Big Ballad Jamboree now is published for the
first time. The famous teacher of young writers as Robert Penn
Warren, Jesse Stuart, and Elizabeth Spencer never saw publication
of his own novel. The mystery of its fate resolved at long last
with the publication of the complete manuscript, discovered by a
granddaughter in family files.
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