Step It Up and Go
Step It Up and Go

Author: David Menconi

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1469659360

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This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state's music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina's Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina's sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.

Folk Song U.S.A.
Folk Song U.S.A.

Author: Alan Lomax

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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Updated and revised to include a new selected list of record albums, fold festivals, books and magazines on folk song.

Sodom Laurel Album
Sodom Laurel Album

Author: Rob Amberg

Publisher: Lyndhurst Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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"Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger.

Minstrel of the Appalachians
Minstrel of the Appalachians

Author: Loyal Jones

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0813148820

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It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"—his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress—but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, an annual event that has shaped America's festival movement. Loyal Jones pens a lively biography of a man considered to be Appalachian music royalty. He also includes a "Lunsford Sampler" of ballads, songs, hymns, tales, and anecdotes, plus a discography of his recordings.

North Carolina is My Home
North Carolina is My Home

Author: Charles Kuralt

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This is a celebration of North Carolina--the people, scenery, food, history, and much more. Color and black-and-white photographs.

Ray Hicks
Ray Hicks

Author: Robert Isbell

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780807849620

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Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where

Wayfaring Strangers
Wayfaring Strangers

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-08-01

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1469666278

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From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.