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The devil's box

masters of southern fiddling

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An edition of The devil's box (1997)

The devil's box

masters of southern fiddling

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

The key players and favorite tunes in the commercial emergence of Southern fiddling in the first half of the twentieth century are the focus of this lucid and engaging study. Drawing on such seldom-tapped resources as small regional newspapers, personal correspondence, and rare interviews with the fiddlers themselves as well as their families, Charles Wolfe conjures up vivid portraits of the individuals who fashioned this distinctly American music.

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Language
English
Pages
232

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Cover of: The Devil's Box
The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling (Vanderbilt/Country Music Foundation Press)
August 1998, Vanderbilt University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The devil's box
The devil's box: masters of southern fiddling
1997, Country Music Foundation Press, Vanderbilt University Press
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Introduction : the commercial fiddling tradition
The oldest recorded fiddling styles
The recordings of Eck Robertson
Across the Amerikee : the story of uncle Jimmy Thompson
Fiddlin' powers and his family
Mr. Grayson's train
Doc Roberts : behind the masks
Clayton Mcmichen : the reluctant hillbilly
Kessinger
The odyssey of Arthur Smith
Bob Wills, fiddler
Slim Miller of Renfro Valley
The mystery of "The black mountain rag"
"Over the waves" : notes toward a history
Tommy Jackson : portrait of a Nashville session fiddler
Ernie Hodges : from Coal Creek to Bach.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. 217-218), and index.

Published in
Nashville

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
787.2/1642/09
Library of Congress
ML3551.7.S68 W65 1997, ML3551.7.S68W65 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 232 p. :
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1010783M
Internet Archive
devilsboxmasters0000wolf
ISBN 10
0826512836
LCCN
96051254
OCLC/WorldCat
36037955
Library Thing
522973
Goodreads
1796159

First Sentence

"OF THE PIONEERING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS MADE BY various fiddlers in the 1920s, which represents the most archaic or oldest style?"

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