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Play of a fiddle : traditional music, dance, and folklore in West Virginia

Title: Play of a fiddle : traditional music, dance, and folklore in West Virginia / Gerald Milnes.
Author: Milnes, Gerald.
Publication: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

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Description

211 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity.
Milnes explores the legacies of the state's best-known performers and musical families. He discusses religious music, balladeering, the influence of black musicians and styles, dancing, banjo and dulcimer traditions, and the importance of old-time music as a cultural pillar of West Virginia life.

Subject

Folk music > West Virginia > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193), discography (p. [194]-195) and index.

ISBN

0813120802 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98040733

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries