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9781578064410

Fiddling Way Out Yonder

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  • ISBN13:

    9781578064410

  • ISBN10:

    1578064414

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

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Summary

How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia

Author Biography

Drew Beisswenger is a music librarian at Southwest Missouri State University. His work has been published in Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, The EMIE Bulletin, Mid-American Folklore, and The Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
The Region and the Fiddle
3(9)
Family History, Childhood, and Learning
12(32)
Performing, Working, Raising a Family, and Finding Religion
44(40)
Picking Up the Fiddle Again
84(20)
Approaches to Performance
104(16)
Style and Technique
120(37)
Transcriptions and Analyses of Ten Selected Tunes
157(26)
Conclusion
183(6)
Appendixes 189(6)
Notes 195(20)
References 215(8)
Index 223

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