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Bluegrass : a history / Neil V. Rosenberg.

Summary:

Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, this title traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It also describes early bluegrass' role in postwar country music, and its trials following the appearance of rock and roll.

Record details

ISBN: 0252072456
ISBN: 9780252072451
Physical Description: xvi, 447 pages, [40] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition: Rev. pbk. ed.
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Twentieth anniversary edition"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-405) , discography (p. 406-420) , and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Hillbilly music and the Monroe Brothers -- No one was calling it bluegrass: Bill Monroe, 1938-45 -- From sound to genre: 1946-49 -- Naming the genre: 1950-57 -- Bluegrass breaks away: 1957-60 -- In and out with the folk revival: 1961-65 -- The first festival and bluegrass consumers: 1965-66 -- The old-time element: religion and fiddle music -- Image and stereotype: bluegrass sound tracks, 1961-72 -- Festivals get big: 1966-73 -- But is it bluegrass? the bands, 1967-74 -- Books, records, believers: bluegrass today.