Bluegrass. A History

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface.

Winner of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award fot Favorite Country Book of the Year.

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 1940s. 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-1960s. "Bluegrass" also details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the 1970s and 1980s.

In a preface written especially for this new edition, Neil V. Rosenberg 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.

CONTENIDO:

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Hillbilly Music and the Monroe Brothers
2. No One Was Calling It Bluegrass: Bill Monroe, 1938-45
3. From Sound to Genre: 1946-49
4. Naming the Genre: 1950-57
5. Bluegrass Breaks Away: 1957-60
6. In and Out with the Folk Revival: 1961-65
7. The First Festival and Bluegrass Consumers: 1965-66
8. The Old-Time Element: Religion and Fiddle Music
9. Image and Stereotype: Bluegrass Sound Tracks, 1961-72
10. Festivals Get Big: 1966-73
11. But Is It Bluegrass? The Bands, 1967-74
12. Books, Records, Believers: Bluegrass Today

Bibliography
Discography
Aural History
Interviews
Index
Song Title Index