Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (Music in American Life) - Tapa blanda

Wright, John

 
9780252064784: Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (Music in American Life)
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ISBN 10: 025206478X ISBN 13: 9780252064784
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1995

Sinopsis

John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave yarns far into the night. Told by those who create, produce, stage, love, and virtually live for old-time mountain music, these tales come from the longtime coworkers, sidemen, promoters, friends, and others in the orbit of the music legend. The storytellers include a scholar who knew Stanley from the early days, the housewife who ran the Stanley Brothers Fan Club, and a souvenir seller for whom the discovery of Stanley's music was almost a religious experience.

Wright also uses these invaluable oral histories as a foundation to describe and evaluate Stanley's long career with the Clinch Mountain Boys and the development of his music after the death of his brother Carter. An appendix covers Ralph's prolific recording activity through the mid-1990s, including a breathtaking forty-five albums compromising more than 550 songs and tunes.

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Acerca del autor

John Wright is the John Evans Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern University and a columnist for Banjo Newsletter.

De la contraportada

'A very enjoyable book...makes you feel that you are listening to the persons Wright interviewed talk about treasured memories.' -- Suzanne Denison, Bluegrass Breakdown

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
025206478X
ISBN 13 
9780252064784
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
Contacto del fabricante
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9780252020247: Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (Music in American Life)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0252020243 ISBN 13:  9780252020247
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1993
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