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Author Wade, Stephen

Title The beautiful music all around us : field recordings and the American experience / Stephen Wade
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 477 pages) : illustrations
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Contents Bill Stepp : retreat across America -- Kelly Pace : coworker in the kingdom of culture -- Ora Dell Graham : a little black girl from Mississippi -- Christine and Katherine Shipp : in a chromatic light -- Nashville Washboard Band : something out of nothing -- Vera Hall : the life that we live -- Bozie Sturdivant : a song that went with him -- Pete Steele : it's what folks do -- Texas Gladden : from here to the Mississippi -- Luther Strong : way behind his time -- Charlie Butler : call me to home -- Jess Morris : boiled shirt and cowboy boots
Summary Highlights the stories behind thirteen field recordings captured between 1934 and 1942, focusing on the experiences of the people--ranging from students to prisoners--who contributed to the recordings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)
SUBJECT Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.) fast
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Subject Field recordings -- United States -- History
Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Ethnic.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Field recordings
Folk music
Schallaufzeichnung
Folk music
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Folk music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Folk music.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011044092
ISBN 9780252094002
025209400X
128369199X
9781283691994