TY - BOOK AU - Wade,Stephen TI - The beautiful music all around us: field recordings and the American experience T2 - Music in American life SN - 9780252036880 (cloth) PY - 2012/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Folk music KW - Sound recordings KW - Fieldwork KW - United States N1 - With CD 2314; Works cited: p. 423-445; Bill Stepp: retreat across America -- Kelly Pace: coworker in the kingdom of culture -- Ora Dell Graham: a little black girl from Mississippi -- Christine and Katherine Shipp: in a chromatic light -- Nashville Washboard Band: something out of nothing -- Vera Hall: the life that we live -- Bozie Sturdivant: a song that went with him -- Pete Steele: it's what folks do -- Texas Gladden: from here to the Mississippi -- Luther Strong: way behind his time -- Charlie Butler: call me to home -- Jess Morris: boiled shirt and cowboy boots N2 - Highlights the stories behind thirteen field recordings captured between 1934 and 1942, focusing on the experiences of the people, ranging from students to prisoners, who contributed to the recordings ER -