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Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound

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Description for Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound Paperback. An academic book on bluegrass. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AVGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.

Bluegrass Breakdown is an expansive foray into the makings of bluegrass. More than any other book of its kind, it gets to the roots of a uniquely American music that is deeply linked to working-class ideals and romanticism. 

Robert Cantwell engages the historical background, commercial origins, internal workings, and cultural and social significance of popular, old-time music to provide a unique musicological and sociological perspective. Well-versed in the history of the tradition and equally as interested in those who listen to the music as in those who create it, Cantwell links bluegrass to its hillbilly roots in Appalachia and shows how the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Music in American Life
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071171
SKU
V9780252071171
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About Robert Cantwell
Robert Cantwell teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture and When We Were Good: The Folk Revival.

Reviews for Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound
Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1985. "A seminal work in its field. . . . Robert Cantwell has had the foresight, the initiative, and the intellectual creativity to create a model for explaining a major force in southern and, indeed, American culture."
Journal of Southern History "A thoroughly researched and often brilliant attempt to place bluegrass music ... Read more

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