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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812356403321

Autore

Wade Stephen

Titolo

The beautiful music all around us : field recordings and the American experience / / Stephen Wade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-69199-X

0-252-09400-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Collana

Music in American life

Disciplina

781.62/13

Soggetti

Field recordings - United States - History

Folk music - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bill Stepp : retreat across America -- Kelly Pace : coworker in the kingdom of culture -- Ora Dell Graham : a little black girl from Mississippi -- Christine and Katherine Shipp : in a chromatic light -- Nashville Washboard Band : something out of nothing -- Vera Hall : the life that we live -- Bozie Sturdivant : a song that went with him -- Pete Steele : it's what folks do -- Texas Gladden : from here to the Mississippi -- Luther Strong : way behind his time -- Charlie Butler : call me to home -- Jess Morris : boiled shirt and cowboy boots.

Sommario/riassunto

This title presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of 13 performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains.