Thomas Goldsmith

Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown

The Making of an American Classic

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Goldsmith is a music journalist. For more than thirty years, he has worked both in daily newspapers in North Carolina and Tennessee and as freelance writer. He is the editor of The Bluegrass Reader, winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's best journalist award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780252084782
• ISBN-10: 0252084780
• Artikelnr.: 56397121

Autorenporträt

Thomas Goldsmith

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Out to Follow Scruggs's Path
2. "I grew up around a banjo"
3. The Piedmont's Rich Musical Soil
4. Early Professional Days
5. Joining Bill Monroe
6. Working as a Blue Grass Boy
7. Flatt and Scruggs Build a Career
8. Recording "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
9. "Like a Jackhammer" - How the Tune Works
10. The Number-One Banjo Player
11. The Beverly Hillbillies Welcomes the Banjo
12. Riding with Bonnie and Clyde
13. Scruggs without Flatt: A Period of Transition
14. Scruggs's Banjo Gains a Cult Following
15. Reaping the Harvest
Notes
Index