- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and parking lot picking, Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print, audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: O Bluegrass, Where Art Thou?
- Chapter 1 Homegrown Music: What Is Bluegrass?
- Chapter 2 The Evolution of Bluegrass: A Mosaic of Influences
- Chapter 3 Banjo Meets the High Lonesome Sound
- Chapter 4 Bluegrass Bends and Blends
- Chapter 5 Fiddling to Flatpicking
- Chapter 6 Songs of Love, Death, Faith, and Family
- Chapter 7 Popular Culture: Got Bluegrass?
- Chapter 8 The International Language of Bluegrass
- Chapter 9 Up Close: Concerts, Festivals, and Parking Lot Pickin'
- Chapter 10 Pick It Up, Pass It On!
- Chapter 11 On the Horizon
- Chapter 12 Down the Road: Continuing the Tradition
- Afterword: Rediscovering Bluegrass
- Twenty-Five Recordings to Jump-Start Your Collection ... Plus a Random Sampling of Videos
- Where to from Here: Suggested Resources
- Selected Works Consulted
- Index
- A photo essay