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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
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Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Under The Shadow Of The Awful Gallows-Tree: The 1866 And 1868 Murder Trials Of Thomas Dula And Ann Melton As A Case Study In Gender And Power In Reconstruction Era Western North Carolina, Heather L. Miller
Heather L. Miller
This thesis seeks to build on scholarship done by historians of social and cultural history by exploring how the murder narrative was treated and evolved in popular discourse surrounding the time of the murder, the murder trials, Dula’s execution in May 1868, and Melton’s acquittal later that year. This is a micro-history that explores everyday life on a small scale by tracing the common, if elusive lives of Thomas Dula, Ann Melton, and Laura Foster, and the communities they lived in, to explore the culture in which they lived—and died. Two suspects were involved in Foster’s death, Thomas Dula and …