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A Florida fiddler : the life and times of Richard Seaman / Gregory Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Gregory, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiddlers--Florida--Biography.
- Fiddlers.
- Storytellers--Florida--Biography.
- Storytellers.
- Old-time music--Social aspects--Florida.
- Old-time music.
- Seaman, Richard, 1904-2002.
- Seaman, Richard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape.This biography of 97-year-old Richard Seaman, who grew up in Kissimmee Park, Florida, relies on oral history and folklore research to define the place of musicianship and storytelling in the state's history from one artist's perspective. Gregory Hansen presents Seaman's assessment of Florida's changing cultural landscape through his tall tales, personal experience narratives, legends, fiddle tune repertory, and descriptions of daily life. Seaman's childhood memories of fiddling performances and rura
- Contents:
- Arts mania
- And the merry love the fiddle
- Workshop
- "Your word was your bond" : an anthology of tall tales
- Uncle Josie's farm
- Richard's fiddle
- Core repertory
- Folklife in education
- A Florida fiddler
- The voice of a fiddler
- The icing on the cake.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8193-7
- OCLC:
- 426057381
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