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A guide to the Crooked Road : Virginia's heritage music trail / [by Joe Wilson].

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, 2006.Description: xiii, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. + 2 sound discs (4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 0895873273
  • 9780895873279
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Contents:
Tips for traveling the Crooked Road and using this book -- Introduction -- Why so much music here? -- Sources of the music : the Blue Ridge as the first American blender -- Europe meets Africa in the tidewater -- The banjo -- The African banjo -- The wooden banjo -- Why blacks gave up the banjo -- The fiddle -- Violinist or fiddler? -- Fiddling style along the Crooked Road -- Fiddling contests -- The guitar -- The hillbilly reinvention of the guitar -- Luthiers and violin makers -- Technology, older music, and the radio revolution -- New folks in the audience -- Bluegrass and old-time music defined -- Franklin County and Rocky Mount -- Patrick County and Stuart -- Floyd County and Floyd -- Carroll County and Hillsville -- Grayson County and Galax -- Washington County, Abingdon, Damascus, and Bristol -- Scott County and Gate City -- Lee County and Jonesville -- Wise County, Coeburn, Norton, and Big Stone Gap -- Dickenson County and Clintwood -- Music samples from the Crooked Road.
Summary: A guide to a musical trail in southwestern Virginia, detailing, music venues, places to eat and stay, and places of interest.
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Books Books VWML Gift GN 20 (32) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only Gift from Liz Milner. With two accompanying CDs, filed at 4173 and 4174. 18695

With two accompanying CDs of music from southwestern Virginia, featuring old-time, bluegrass, Piedmont blues, Anglo-American ballads and Appalachian gospel music (SR07565, filed at 2173; and SR07566, filed at 2174).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.

Tips for traveling the Crooked Road and using this book -- Introduction -- Why so much music here? -- Sources of the music : the Blue Ridge as the first American blender -- Europe meets Africa in the tidewater -- The banjo -- The African banjo -- The wooden banjo -- Why blacks gave up the banjo -- The fiddle -- Violinist or fiddler? -- Fiddling style along the Crooked Road -- Fiddling contests -- The guitar -- The hillbilly reinvention of the guitar -- Luthiers and violin makers -- Technology, older music, and the radio revolution -- New folks in the audience -- Bluegrass and old-time music defined -- Franklin County and Rocky Mount -- Patrick County and Stuart -- Floyd County and Floyd -- Carroll County and Hillsville -- Grayson County and Galax -- Washington County, Abingdon, Damascus, and Bristol -- Scott County and Gate City -- Lee County and Jonesville -- Wise County, Coeburn, Norton, and Big Stone Gap -- Dickenson County and Clintwood -- Music samples from the Crooked Road.

A guide to a musical trail in southwestern Virginia, detailing, music venues, places to eat and stay, and places of interest.

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