Ole Hendricks and his tunebook : folk music and community on the frontier / Amy M. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Amy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hendricks, Ole, 1851-1935.

Hendricks, Ole.

Fiddlers--Middle West--Biography.

Fiddlers.

Norwegian Americans--Music--History and criticism.

Norwegian Americans.

Folk music--Middle West--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Fiddle tunes.

Folk music--Middle West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]

Summary:

Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional-a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book. Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.

Contents:

Part One. The Life and Music of Ole Hendricks

Part Two. The Tunes, with Annotations.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299328733

0299328732