North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide

by Beisswenger; Drew

• ISBN13: 9780415994545
• ISBN10: 0415994543
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Fiddle: A Research and Information Guide is the first large-scale annotated bibliography and research guide on the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada. These countries, both of which have large immigrant populations as well as Native populations, have maintained fiddle traditions that, while sometimes faithful to old-world or Native styles, often feature blended elements from various traditions. Therefore, researchers of the fiddle traditions in these two countries can not only explore elements of fiddling practices drawn from various regions of the world, but also look at how different fiddle traditions can interact and change. In addition to including short essays and listings of resources about the full range of fiddle traditions in those two countries, it also discusses selected resources about fiddle traditions in other countries that have influenced the traditions in the United States and Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiv
Major general categories	p. 1
Bibliographies and discographies	p. 1
Tune books	p. 5
Web sources	p. 36
Open listing	p. 40
Genres	p. 64
Bluegrass	p. 65
Blues and rock	p. 90
Cajun	p. 93
Contest	p. 93
Country	p. 101
Dance	p. 114
Fiction	p. 117
Jazz and progressive	p. 120
Minstrelsy	p. 129
Old-time	p. 131
Western swing and cowboy	p. 146
Selected ethnic groups	p. 155
African-Americans	p. 155
Jewish	p. 161
Native Americans	p. 164
Native Americans, Métis	p. 169
Selected regional and national groups	p. 172
North American fiddling with strong ties to Europe	p. 173
Czech Republic	p. 173
England	p. 174
Finland	p. 175
France	p. 176
Ireland	p. 178
Norway	p. 188
Poland	p. 191
Scotland	p. 192
Sweden	p. 195
Ukraine	p. 196
North American fiddling with strong ties to Africa	p. 198
North American fiddling with strong ties to Mexico and Latin America	p. 199
Canada	p. 202
The Atlantic provinces	p. 206
New Brunswick	p. 206
Newfoundland and Labrador	p. 210
Nova Scotia	p. 214
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton	p. 216
Prince Edward Island	p. 233
Central Canada	p. 236
Ontario	p. 236
Québec	p. 242
Western and northern Canada	p. 24 7
Alberta	p. 248
British Columbia	p. 250
Manitoba	p. 251
Northwest Territories	p. 255
Nunavut	p. 256
Saskatchewan	p. 256
Yukon	p. 258
United States	p. 258
Southeast or "The South"	p. 259
Alabama	p. 263
Arkansas and Missouri, including the Ozarks region	p. 271
Florida	p. 291
Georgia	p. 293
Kentucky	p. 307
Louisiana and All Cajun	p. 319
Mississippi	p. 331
North Carolina	p. 334
South Carolina	p. 347
Tennessee	p. 349
Virginia	p. 362
West Virginia	p. 373
Southwest	p. 386
Arizona	p. 386
New Mexico	p. 388
Oklahoma	p. 392
Texas	p. 394
West	p. 405
Alaska	p. 407
California	p. 410
Colorado	p. 415
Hawaii	p. 416
Idaho	p. 416
Montana	p. 419
Nevada	p. 421
Oregon	p. 422
Utah	p. 424
Washington	p. 426
Wyoming	p. 431
Midwest	p. 432
Illinois	p. 434
Indiana	p. 437
Iowa	p. 440
Kansas	p. 441
Michigan	p. 442
Minnesota	p. 446
(Missouri, see Arkansas and Missouri, including the Ozarks region)	p. 448
Nebraska	p. 448
North Dakota	p. 450
Ohio	p. 451
South Dakota	p. 453
Wisconsin	p. 454
Northeast	p. 459
Connecticut	p. 465
Delaware	p. 466
Maine	p. 466
Maryland	p. 469
Massachusetts	p. 470
New Hampshire	p. 471
New Jersey	p. 475
New York	p. 475
Pennsylvania	p. 483
Rhode Island	p. 489
Vermont	p. 491
Name index	p. 494
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