Bluegrass

Bluegrass
Title Bluegrass PDF eBook
Author Neil V. Rosenberg
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 516
Release 2005
Genre Music
ISBN 9780252072451

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The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties. Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.

Industrial Strength Bluegrass

Industrial Strength Bluegrass
Title Industrial Strength Bluegrass PDF eBook
Author Fred Bartenstein
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 312
Release 2021-01-25
Genre Music
ISBN 0252052536

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In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between 1947 and 1989, they created an internationally renowned capital for the thriving bluegrass music genre, centered on the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, and Springfield. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording studios, record labels, and performance venues, along with the music’s contributions to religious activities, community development, and public education. As the bluegrass scene grew, southwestern Ohio's distinctive sounds reached new fans and influenced those everywhere who continue to play, produce, and love roots music. Revelatory and multifaceted, Industrial Strength Bluegrass shares the inspiring story of a bluegrass hotbed and the people who created it. Contributors: Fred Bartenstein, Curtis W. Ellison, Jon Hartley Fox, Rick Good, Lily Isaacs, Ben Krakauer, Mac McDivitt, Nathan McGee, Daniel Mullins, Joe Mullins, Larry Nager, Phillip J. Obermiller, Bobby Osborne, and Neil V. Rosenberg.

How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life

How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
Title How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life PDF eBook
Author John Fahey
Publisher Drag City
Pages 312
Release 2000
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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John Fahey is feared and revered around the world as a guitar player and composer. His inventions for acoustic and electric strings are the stuff of legend. Known for his finger-picking finesse, Fahey's pen has the same world-gobbling ferocity as his guitar. Fahey's collection of short stories defy classification - part memoir, part personal essay, part fiction, part manifesto. It is a collection that makes an explosive selection of his work available for public consumption. What else is there to say, except 'Grab your ankles, dear readers. It's kingdom time!'

Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle

Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle
Title Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle PDF eBook
Author Chris Haigh
Publisher
Pages 160
Release 2021-10-13
Genre
ISBN 9783795714895

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Kentucky's Bluegrass Music

Kentucky's Bluegrass Music
Title Kentucky's Bluegrass Music PDF eBook
Author James C. Claypool
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 132
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9780738585611

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It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentucky--and rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys to honor his home state. Eventually, the music these bands and others like them were playing came to be known as bluegrass music. Later, another Kentuckian, Ebo Walker, while playing with the Bowling Green-based bluegrass band, New Grass Revival, coined the phrase "newgrass" to describe the band's progressive style of music. Other Kentuckians such as Bobby and Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Dale Ann Bradley have become bluegrass stars. Some of the musicians from Kentucky covered in this book are quite famous--some are not. Famous or not, all of them have a deep-rooted passion for the music they play.

Bluegrass Music and Musicians

Bluegrass Music and Musicians
Title Bluegrass Music and Musicians PDF eBook
Author L. Mayne Smith
Publisher
Pages 218
Release 1964
Genre Bluegrass music
ISBN

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All Music Guide

All Music Guide
Title All Music Guide PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 1508
Release 2001
Genre Music
ISBN 9780879306274

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Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.