Bluegrass

by Rosenberg, Neil V.

• ISBN13: 9780252072451
• ISBN10: 0252072456
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-28
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid-sixties.Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.

Author Biography

Grammy Award-winner Neil V. Rosenbert is professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is the coauthor of Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86

Table of Contents

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	3	(15)
Hillbilly Music and the Monroe Brothers	18	(22)
No One Was Calling It Bluegrass: Bill Monroe, 1938--45	40	(28)
From Sound to Genre: 1946--49	68	(27)
Naming the Genre: 1950--57	95	(37)
Bluegrass Breaks Away: 1957--60	132	(34)
In and Out with the Folk Revival: 1961--65	166	(37)
The First Festival and Bluegrass Consumers: 1965--66	203	(28)
The Old-Time Element: Religion and Fiddle Music	231	(19)
Image and Stereotype: Bluegrass Sound Tracks, 1961--72	250	(22)
Festivals Get Big: 1966--73	272	(33)
But Is It Bluegrass? The Bands, 1967--74	305	(35)
Books, Records, Believers: Bluegrass Today	340	(37)
Bibliography	377	(29)
Discography	406	(15)
Aural History	421	(2)
Interviews	423	(2)
Index	425	(20)
Song Title Index	445