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Full-Text Articles in Appalachian Studies
The Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson
The Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt The most traditional-sounding of first-generation bluegrass music greats, Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) were from Dickenson County, Virginia.
The 1927 Bristol Sessions And Ralph Peer: A Myth And A Legend Losing Luster In The Cold Light Of Recent Scholarship, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: The so-called 1927 Bristol sessions—the recording sessions conducted in Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, during July-August 1927 by A&R (Artists & Repertoire) producer Ralph Peer and his employer, the Victor Talking Machine Company—garnered relatively little attention until the 1970s. At that point, a few scholars (notably, music historians Charles K. Wolfe, Bill C. Malone, Tony Russell, and Nolan Porterfield) and some serious music fans began to view this long-ago event in a small Appalachian city as one of the most important recording sessions of all time.
The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson
The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: The guitar, brought by the Spanish to the New World in the seventeenth century, was not common in the Blue Ridge through the dawn of the twentieth century.
Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson
Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: A majority of the early settlers on the Appalachian frontier were immigrants from Lowland Scotland or from Northern Ireland (the Scots-Irish, who descended primarily from Lowland Scots).
The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson
The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Visitors fortunate enough to hear the John Doyle Trio during the Mountains of Music Homecoming will be reminded of the old but not forgotten bonds between Appalachia and the British Isles.
Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson
Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Visitors to the Crooked Road and the Mountains of Music Homecoming will hear both old time and bluegrass music, though the difference between the two is sometimes unclear.
Ballads, Ted Olson
Ballads, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Arguably the most enduring artifacts from the early days of European settlement in Appalachia, ballads are still sung in households and on festival stages along The Crooked Road.
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”
Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson
Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: An unpublished song by Blind Alfred Reed, transcribed by Reed’s granddaughter Delores Crawford.
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: In a recent interview, musician Wynton Marsalis said, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve suggested to musicians to get The Bristol Sessions—Anglo-American folk music.
Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-first Century Traditional Singer
Book Review Of Fiona Ritchie And Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Book Review Of Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings And The American Experience, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War. 2014. Written and compiled by Jürgen Schebera. Bear Family Records, book, CDs (7), DVD, BCD 16093.
Recording Review Of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928 And Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 and Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of The Troubles and Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories of Northern Ireland by James B. Johnson
Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946. 2015. Produced, compiled, and annotated by James P. Leary. Dust-to-Digital, CDs (5), DVD, DTD-43.
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Charlie Poole with The Highlanders: Complete Recordings
Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates: Vols. 1-4
Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Transcribed from a time-less song recorded in August 1927 by the Carter Family, the above lyrics (and their accompanying, memorably lilting melody) have moved millions of people worldwide.
Review Of The Original Carolina Chocolate Drops: Giddons, Rhiannon. 2015. Tomorrow Is My Turn; Flemons, Dom. 2015. Prospect Hill; And Robinson, Justin. 2012. Bones For Tinder, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Excerpt: Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson met at the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in 2005. Inspired by this meeting in Appalachia, the trio worked to connect the legacy of Cumberland Plateau fiddler Howard Armstrong (of the 1920s band the Tennessee Chocolate Drops) with musical material they learned from their mentor, North Carolina Piedmont fiddler Joe Thompson. As the Carolina Chocolate Drops (CCD), these musicians explored a variety of black string band traditions.
In The Deep Heart’S Core: A Mystic Cabaret By Joseph Sobol, Lee Bidgood
In The Deep Heart’S Core: A Mystic Cabaret By Joseph Sobol, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
A cycle of songs and spoken pieces from the verses and essays of Ireland's master poet, W. B. Yeats, In the Deep Heart’s Core is a stunning evening of musical theatre. The Chicago Tribune called it "A joy--poetry to the ears, alternately tender and rousing." Featuring Joseph Sobol and original cast member Kathy Cowan. Performers include Lee Bidgood, Dominic Aquilino, Clara Ray Burrus, and Robbie Link.
Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood
Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Excerpt: Proc ty housle? ("Why the fiddle?") - "Fiddlers are all bad here - Why not write about the banjo or something else that Czechs are good at?"These questions about my ethnographic fieldwork came from musician colleagues with whom I working in researching bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, during a jam circle around a table. While these colleagues were mainly banjo and guitar players, these critiques of Czech fiddling are common even among Czech fiddlers, who are in many cases not as accomplished (in technical skill or musicality) as are their banjo-playing and mandolin-picking compatriots.
Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood
Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance, I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state of in-betweenness, in a territory that is between work, play, here and there, self and other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is important for fieldwork, and for music-making – play, I find, is both a central activity and metaphor in both. The bluegrass play I discuss in this essay can become a response to the encroachment of Americanization in economic and cultural globalization, but also a way of being “Americanist” – and entirely Czech.
Collaboration, Fieldwork, And Film, Lee Bidgood
Collaboration, Fieldwork, And Film, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Excerpt: I never imagined that I would help produce a documentary film based on my ethnographic fieldwork. Meeting documentary filmmaker Shara Lange during new faculty orientation at the university where we were both newly hired eventually led to our film Banjo Romantika (2013)—a full-length feature based on my research on bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, in which I play a key role as writer, producer, and on-screen character. Taking part in this film project has led me to consider how film enriches relationships with field colleagues, providing new opportunities for teaching and learning. I find that collaborations like ours …
Bill Monroe And Czech Bluegrassers: Imagination And The Production Of Place In Music, Lee Bidgood
Bill Monroe And Czech Bluegrassers: Imagination And The Production Of Place In Music, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Journal Summary: Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music: Buried Roots is a collection of articles by noted country music scholars Wayne Daniel, James Akenson, Gregory Hansen and Lee Bidgood. This is a special publication of the International Country Music Journal, an extension of the International Country Music Conference held annually at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Book Review Of 'Exploring American Folk Music, Ethnic, Grassroots, And Regional Traditions In The U.S.’ By Kip Lornell, Lee Bidgood
Lee Bidgood
Review of ‘Exploring American Folk Music, Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the U.S.’ by Kip Lornell