This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina’s Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball.
Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina’s sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.
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Step It Up and Go
The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk
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eBook - ePub
Step It Up and Go
The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk
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North American HistoryTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Prologue: March 1991
- 1. Linthead Pop: Charlie Poole, the Father of Mill-Town Rock (and the First Rock Star)
- 2. Step It Up and Go: Blind Boy Fuller, Durham, and the Piedmont Blues
- 3. Through the Airwaves: Arthur Smith in Charlotte
- 4. Rocket Man: Earl Scruggs and the Birth of Bluegrass
- 5. From Gospel to Rhythm and Blues: The “5” Royales and the Rise of a New African American Sound
- 6. The American Folk Revival Comes to North Carolina: Doc Watson
- 7. Breaking Color Lines at the Beach: The Embers and Beach Music
- 8. The Eight-Track Era of Rock and Roll: Nantucket’s Long Way to the Top
- 9. Combo Corner: Mitch Easter’s Winston-Salem
- 10. Chapel Hill: The “Next Seattle” Era
- 11. How to Make It in the Music Business without Really Trying: Colonial, Sugar Hill, and Merge Records
- 12. Y’alternative: The Rise of Americana
- 13. Salvation Songs: The Avett Brothers
- 14. Songs of Immigrants and Emigrants: From Nina Simone to the Kruger Brothers
- 15. Hip-Hop Goes to College: 9th Wonder and Little Brother
- 16 Famous on Television: Scotty McCreery, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, and American Idol
- Epilogue: September 2013
- Acknowledgments
- Readings
- Selected Discography
- Index
- Back Cover
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