Book Description
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia
Author : Drew Beisswenger
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604732023
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia
Author : Drew Beisswenger
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 162846867X
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's playing and teaching all three have created a vital and enduring legacy. Wine has been honored nationally for his musical skills and his leadership role in an American musical tradition. A farmer, a coal miner, a father of ten children, and a deeply religious man, he has played music from the hard lessons of his own experience and shaped a musical tradition even while passing it to others. Fiddling Way Out Yonder examines the fiddler, his music, and its context from a variety of perspectives. Many rousing fiddlers came from isolated mountain regions like Melvin's home stomp. The book makes a point to address the broad historical issues related both to North American fiddling and to Wine's personal history. Wine has spent almost all of his ninety-two years in rural Braxton County, an area where the fiddle and dance traditions that were strong during his childhood and early adult life continue to be active today. Utilizing models from folklore studies and ethnomusicology, Fiddling Way Out Yonder discusses how community life and educational environment have affected Melvin's music and his approaches to performance. Such a unique fiddler deserves close stylistic scrutiny. The book reveals Wine's particular tunings, his ways of holding the instrument, his licks, his bowing techniques and patterns, his tune categories, and his favorite keys. The book includes transcriptions and analyses of ten of Melvin's tunes, some of which are linked to minstrelsy, ballad singing traditions, and gospel music. Narratives discuss the background of each tune and how it has fit into Melvin's life. While his music is tied to community and family traditions, Melvin is a unique and complex person. This biography heralds a musician who wants both to communicate the spirit of his mountains and to sway an audience into having an old-fashioned good time.
Author : Drew Beisswenger
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Fiddlers
ISBN : 9781578064427
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN :
A regional studies review.
Author : New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher :
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Erynn Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN :
Music in the Air is a study on fiddle music and folk traditions. It is also a look into the broad influences that folk music has on fiddlers? compositions and their practices. By exploring the oral histories of seven, life-long musicians, Erynn Marshall illuminates the diversity of these music traditions and the culmination of the fiddle song genres. Through the studies of the musicians lives, oral transmissions, social contexts, and analysis of various genres within the contexts, Marshall expresses how the instrumental and vocal tradition have merged and transformed over time, blurring the preset boundaries and perceptions of the art. Included with this intense survey of Appalachian tradition is a CD of Marshall's field and archival recordings of West Virginia musicians.
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Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Folk art
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Author : Gregory Hansen
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
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Author : Kentucky Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Kentucky
ISBN :
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Folk music
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