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Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback)
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Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback)
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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do
not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather,
much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the
bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group
contributed more to the commercialization of early country music
than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber
explores the origins and development of this music in the
Piedmont's mill villages. Huber offers vivid portraits of a
colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin'
John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers,
and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and
mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range
of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished
interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between
1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era.
Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers,
guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories
of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial
life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the
changing realities of the twentieth-century South.
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