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Author:   Josh Beckworth
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781476667294

ISBN 10:   1476667292
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   03 April 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Biography and History A Dark Road Is a Hard Road to Travel: Brief Biographies of Grayson and Whitter Straddling the Appalachian Divide: Fries and Laurel Bloomery Henry Whitter and the Creation of Country Music The Long Shadow of G.B. Grayson I Wish I Was Single Again: Marriage and Divorce in the Grayson and Whitter Families Grayson, Whitter and the Hill Billies: Manufacturers of Music James W.M. Grayson, Tom Dula and the Appalachian Civil War The Courthouse Massacre On the Trail of Nancy Blevins The Music Overview The Dance Tunes The Murder Ballads Folksongs of the British Isles The Victorian Songs The Temperance Songs The Railroad Songs The Tin Pan Alley Songs The Comedy Songs American Folk Songs Notes Bibliography Index

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"""My academic tenure has been guided by two beliefs: scholarship grounded in a personal connection to the subject yields the most passion and perspective; and music that springs directly from the soil closest at hand has the greatest power to affect us. Josh Beckworth's Always Been a Rambler hews to both of these principles, revealing insight informed by a personal subjective relationship tempered through objective research.... Always Been a Rambler is very much a music history that devotes equal measure to the music and the history, fully examining the ways one informs the other.""--Ron Pen, The Journal of Southern History"

My academic tenure has been guided by two beliefs: scholarship grounded in a personal connection to the subject yields the most passion and perspective; and music that springs directly from the soil closest at hand has the greatest power to affect us. Josh Beckworth's Always Been a Rambler hews to both of these principles, revealing insight informed by a personal subjective relationship tempered through objective research.... Always Been a Rambler is very much a music history that devotes equal measure to the music and the history, fully examining the ways one informs the other. --Ron Pen, The Journal of Southern History

Author Information

Josh Beckworth is a high school English teacher. He has received the W. Amos Abrams prize from the North Carolina Folklore Society and published in the North Carolina Folklore Journal. He lives in Crumpler, North Carolina.

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