Bluegrass:

A History

University of Illinois Press, Jan 1, 2005 - Music - 447 pages

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.

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Bill Monroe 193845	40

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195057	96

196165	166

196566	203

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But Is It Bluegrass? The Bands 196774	305

Bluegrass Today	340

Song Title Index	445

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About the author (2005)

Grammy Award-winner Neil V. Rosenberg is the professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of Bluegrass: A History and coauthor of Bluegrass Odyssey.

Bibliographic information

Title	Bluegrass: A History Music In American Life
Author	Neil V. Rosenberg
Edition	20, illustrated, reprint, revised, annotated
Publisher	University of Illinois Press, 2005
ISBN	0252072456, 9780252072451
Length	447 pages
Subjects	Music › Genres & Styles › Country & Bluegrass Music / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass Music / History & Criticism

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