Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018 - Couverture souple

Bolick, Harry; Russell, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496835891 ISBN 13 : 9781496835895

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi's rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick has spent the intervening years working on this book, its sequel.

Beginning with Tony Russell's original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with Russell, Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78 rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, and Narmour & Smith had been well known in the state. Others, like the Collier Trio, were obscure. This collecting work was followed by many field trips to Mississippi searching for and locating the children and grandchildren of the musicians. Previously unheard recordings and stories, unseen photographs and discoveries of nearly unknown local fiddlers, such as Jabe Dillon, John Gatwood, Claude Kennedy, and Homer Grice, followed. The results are now available in this second, companion volume, Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018.

Two hundred and seventy musical examples supplement the biographies and photographs of the thirty-five artists documented here. Music comes from commercial recordings and small pressings of 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and LP records; collectors' field recordings; and the musicians' own home tape and disc recordings. Taken together, these two volumes represent a delightfully comprehensive survey of Mississippi's fiddle tunes.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Harry Bolick has for the last thirty years been a fiddler, performer, and recording artist. He is coauthor (with Stephen T. Austin) of Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Tony Russell is author of Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost; the encyclopedic Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942; numerous liner notes to CDs and LPs; and many articles documenting the early history of American country music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496835891
• ISBN 13: 9781496835895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 574
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