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The beautiful music all around us : field recordings and the American experience / Stephen Wade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wade, Stephen.
- Series:
- Music in American life.
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Field recordings--United States--History.
- Field recordings.
- Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283691994
- 128369199X
- 9780252094002
- 025209400X
- OCLC:
- 813932065
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