Old-Time Conversations

Finding Health, Happiness and Community Through Traditional Music

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Disillusioned with business at age 50, the author found himself irresistibly drawn to the joy and sense of community that music had first brought to his youth. Inspired by this rediscovered passion, he embarked on a remarkable 12-year odyssey, capturing the stories of artisans, performers, and teachers of traditional music across North America now preserved in this volume. These interviewees who represent the heart and soul of old-time music include instrument builders Bart Reiter, Patrick "Doc" Huff, Pete Ross, Zachary Hoyt, Bill Rickard, and William Seeders Mosheim; old-time performers Rayna Gellert, David Holt, James "Sparky" Rucker, Clare Milliner, Mac Benford, Sheila Kay Adams, Paul Brown and John McCutcheon; and historians and authors Dwight Diller, Bill Malone, Don Flemons, and Tim Brooks.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-25
Mått:178 x 254 x 6 mm
Vikt:547 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:120
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476694726

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Craig R. Evans is a filmmaker, author, and musician documenting today’s North American traditional music community. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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“In this testimonial to the five-string banjo, Craig Evans—author, musician, and filmmaker—finds a spiritual home and therapeutic community. His study centers on contemporary builders, players, and historians who tell a story of health, of a living tradition and sources of its longevity. From witnessing Doc Watson penetrate the core of a tune to coping with latter-day Jim Crow practice, from a disabled artisan making a surpassingly beautiful instrument, to a great scholar’s summation of broadcast minstrelsy, Old-time Conversations explores the fellowship of Southern Appalachian traditional music in the 21st century.”—Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience