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Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson Nov 2017

Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson

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Review of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates: Vols. 1-4


Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson Oct 2017

Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson

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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.


Big Mama And The Uncertain Leap, Kelly A. Dorgan Sep 2017

Big Mama And The Uncertain Leap, Kelly A. Dorgan

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Excerpt:I live in a place that evokes fear, a place deformed by layers and layers of pulse-racing images, of intoxicating whiskey-dark stories.


Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson Apr 2017

Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson

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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 Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson Apr 2017

The Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson

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Excerpt The most traditional-sounding of first-generation bluegrass music greats, Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) were from Dickenson County, Virginia.


Ballads, Ted Olson Apr 2017

Ballads, Ted Olson

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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.


Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson Jan 2017

Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson

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Review of Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records


Book Review Of Fiona Ritchie And Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia, Ted Olson Nov 2016

Book Review Of Fiona Ritchie And Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia, Ted Olson

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Review of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia


The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson Apr 2016

The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson

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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.


The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson Apr 2016

The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson

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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.


Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson Apr 2016

Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson

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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.


Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson Apr 2016

Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson

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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.


In The Deep Heart’S Core: A Mystic Cabaret By Joseph Sobol, Lee Bidgood Jan 2016

In The Deep Heart’S Core: A Mystic Cabaret By Joseph Sobol, Lee Bidgood

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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.


Bill Monroe And Czech Bluegrassers: Imagination And The Production Of Place In Music, Lee Bidgood Jan 2016

Bill Monroe And Czech Bluegrassers: Imagination And The Production Of Place In Music, Lee Bidgood

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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.


The 1927 Bristol Sessions And Ralph Peer: A Myth And A Legend Losing Luster In The Cold Light Of Recent Scholarship, Ted Olson Jan 2016

The 1927 Bristol Sessions And Ralph Peer: A Myth And A Legend Losing Luster In The Cold Light Of Recent Scholarship, Ted Olson

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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.


Recording Review Of Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-55, Ted Olson Jan 2016

Recording Review Of Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-55, Ted Olson

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Review of Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947-55


Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson Jan 2016

Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson

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Excerpt: An unpublished song by Blind Alfred Reed, transcribed by Reed’s granddaughter Delores Crawford.


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 Oct 2015

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

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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.


Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood Oct 2015

Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood

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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.


Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson Oct 2015

Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson

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Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books


Collaboration, Fieldwork, And Film, Lee Bidgood Jul 2015

Collaboration, Fieldwork, And Film, Lee Bidgood

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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 …


Book Review Of 'Exploring American Folk Music, Ethnic, Grassroots, And Regional Traditions In The U.S.’ By Kip Lornell, Lee Bidgood Apr 2015

Book Review Of 'Exploring American Folk Music, Ethnic, Grassroots, And Regional Traditions In The U.S.’ By Kip Lornell, Lee Bidgood

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Review of ‘Exploring American Folk Music, Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the U.S.’ by Kip Lornell


Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson Apr 2015

Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson

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Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years. By Hank Reineke. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Pp. xix + 327, series editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, discography, bibliography, index, 11 photographs, three illustrations.)


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 Apr 2015

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

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Review of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 and Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958


Improving Tennessee Health Care Providers Understanding Of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Ivy Click, Nicholas E. Hagemeier Mar 2015

Improving Tennessee Health Care Providers Understanding Of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Ivy Click, Nicholas E. Hagemeier

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Book Review Of Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings And The American Experience, Ted Olson Jan 2015

Book Review Of Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings And The American Experience, Ted Olson

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Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience


Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson Jan 2015

Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson

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Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection


Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson Jan 2014

Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson

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Review of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-first Century Traditional Singer


Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson Jan 2014

Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson

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Review of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot


Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson Jan 2014

Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson

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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.”