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The Bluegrass Reader (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Bluegrass Reader (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Music in American Life
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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Like rock 'n' roll, bluegrass exploded out of a post-World War II
atmosphere in which more Americans opened their ears to more
different kinds of music than ever before. All around the country,
musicians were searching for new sounds and approaches: country
blues went fully electric in Chicago, bebop boiled over as jazz hit
the hippest notes yet, and country music followed Hank Williams
into newer, sexier, harder-hitting territory. The developments in
bluegrass proved every bit as galvanic. In The Bluegrass Reader,
Thomas Goldsmith joins his insights as a journalist with a lifetime
of experience in bluegrass to capture the full story of this
dynamic and beloved music. Inspired by the question "What articles
about bluegrass would you want to have with you on a desert
island?" he assembled a delicious, fun-to-read collection that
brings together a wide range of the very best in bluegrass writing.
Goldsmith's judicious selections include a fascinating combination
of older, more obscure, and previously unavailable writings with
pieces that are classics in the history of writing about bluegrass:
Alan Lomax in Esquire, Mayne Smith's groundbreaking dissertation,
Ralph Rinzler's Sing Out piece on Bill Monroe, and Mike Seeger's
Folkways liner notes. The Bluegrass Reader also features writers as
disparate as Marty Stuart, David Gates, and Hunter Thompson writing
for such magazines as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and
Muleskinner News. In an age where musical trends flit by like
models on a runway, bluegrass has endured changes while faithfully
checking its advances against the formative years. Goldsmith
follows its history through three roughly twenty-year periods: from
1939 to 1959, from1959 to 1979, and from 1979 to the present.
Goldsmith's substantial introduction describes and traces the
development of the music from its origins in Anglo-American folk
tradition, overlaid with African American influences, to the
breakout popularity of Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, and the O
Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. He introduces each selection
with a wealth of additional information, making The Bluegrass
Reader both enjoyable and invaluable for new fans of the music as
well as for its lifetime devotees.
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