Capital Bluegrass
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 December 2024
- ISBN 9780197781302
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 236x156x22 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 photos, 5 illus. 630
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Short description:
Documenting the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s, Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. is central to our understanding of bluegrass in the United States.
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With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly documents the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s.
In his seventeenth book, American vernacular music scholar Kip Lornell discusses both well-known progressive bluegrass bands including the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene, and lesser known groups like the Happy Melody Boys, Benny and Vallie Cain and the Country Clan, and Foggy Bottom. Lornell focuses on colorful figures such as the brilliant and eccentric mandolin player, Buzz Busby, and Connie B. Gay, who helped found the Country Music Association in Nashville. Moving beyond the musicians to the institutions that were central to the development of the genre, Lornell brings the reader into the nationally recognized Birchmere Music Hall, and tunes in to NPR powerhouse WAMU-FM, which for five decades broadcast as much as 40 hours a week of bluegrass programming.
Dozens of images illuminate the story of bluegrass in the D.C. area, photographs and flyers that will be new to even the most veteran bluegrass enthusiast. Bringing to life a music and musical community integral to the history of the city itself, Capital Bluegrass tells an essential tale of bluegrass in the United States.
Kip Lornell has written an outstanding book documenting the history of bluegrass music in the Washington, D.C., area...Capital Bluegrass focuses on bluegrass in a specific area, but the book's implications are wide ranging. Throughout, Kip Lornell provides information regarding the evolving relationships between the DMV bluegrass community and the general American culture, and also between the DMV bluegrass community and surroundings and country and folk music industries. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Meets Washington, DC will appeal to scholars of bluegrass music as well as to bluegrass fans in search of a good read about an important location for the music.
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Thanks
Chapter One: Before Bluegrass (1920s-1946)
Chapter Two: Back Then It Was Called Hillbilly Music (1946-1957)
Chapter Three: Country Gentlemen and The Folk Music Revival (1957-1966)
Chapter Four: Bluegrass Unlimited (1966-1977)
Chapter Five: Not Seldom Heard or Scene (1977-1991)
Chapter Six: 'A Cold Wind A Blowin' (1991-2018)
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