Bluegrass

Neil V. Rosenberg

ISBN 10: 0252072456 / ISBN 13: 9780252072451

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2005

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pp. 512 Anniversary edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bluegrass
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072456
• ISBN 13: 9780252072451
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface

Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year

Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties.

Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.

About the Author

Grammy Award winner Neil V. Rosenberg is professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is the coauthor of Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86.