Roots Music in America (eBook)

Collected Writings of Joe Wilson

Fred Bartenstein (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1
312 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-326-0 (ISBN)

Infos

';Joe Wilson represented a deep diversity in American vernacular music and culture. He directed the National Folk Festival and roots music tours, engaging government support for traditional communities. Joe combined Appalachian wisdom with searching intellect to create original brilliance. ';America's foremost hillbilly intellectual,' laughed at my sobriquet and worked tirelessly for the music and people he loved.' Nick Spitzer, American Routes Joe Wilson served for twenty-eight years as executive director of the National Folk Festival and National Council for Traditional Arts. Throughout his impressive career, Wilson wrote extensively and colorfully about many facets of vernacular music in North America, including works on major folk instruments, as well as on characteristic musical styles, especially old-time, bluegrass, modern country, blues, cowboy, a cappella gospel, and others. This volume, a companion toLucky Joe's Namesake: The Extraordinary Life and Observations of Joe Wilson, compiles Wilson's best writings on musical topics, including some previously unpublished works. With wry humor, Wilson covers the origins of roots music in eighteenth-century America and its subsequent dispersion through races, classes, ethnic groups, and newly settled regions. Wilson knew, worked with, and wrote about many iconic artists of the twentieth century, including Willie Nelson, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, the Stanley Brothers, Kenny Baker, Cephas & Wiggins, John Jackson, and members of the Hill Billiesthe band whose name came to signify an entire genre of the earliest recorded roots music. This carefully curated volume is comprised of works previously scattered in liner notes, small-circulation magazines, tour booklets, and unpublished manuscripts, all collected here and organized by theme. The writings of this legendary, internationally recognized figure will be indispensable to roots music fans and will delight readers and students interested in the traditional arts and dedicated to preserving historic folkways.Fred Bartensteinteaches country and bluegrass music history at the University of Dayton. He is the editor ofBluegrass Bluesman: Josh Graves, a Memoirand coauthor and editor ofThe Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies, 19912014.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: a cappella gospel • American music history • Bluegrass • blues music • Cephas & Wiggins • Clarence Ashley • cowboy music • Doc Watson • eighteenth-century American music • Folk Instruments • folk music dispersion • folk music origins • folk music scholarship • Hill Billies band • historic folkways preservation • Joe Wilson • John Jackson • Kenny Baker • liner notes • modern country music • National Council for Traditional Arts • National Folk Festival • North American folk music • Old-time music • roots music • Stanley Brothers • traditional arts • Vernacular Music • Willie Nelson
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-326-5 / 1621903265
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-326-0 / 9781621903260