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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont

String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont

Carlin, Bob

Paperback

Country & FolkRegional: SouthMusic Instruction: Strings

ISBN10: 0786418265
ISBN13: 9780786418268
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Aug 12 2004
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.58 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

String band music is most commonly associated with the mountains of North Carolina and other rural areas of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains, but it was just as abundant in Piedmont region of North Carolina, albeit with different influences and stylistic conventions.

This work focuses exclusively on the history and culture of the area, the music's development and the changes within traditional communities of the Piedmont. It begins with a discussion of the settlement of the Piedmont in the mid-1700s and early references to secular folk music, including the attitudes the various ethnic and religious groups had on music and dance, the introduction of the fiddle and the banjo, and outside influences such as minstrel shows, Hawaiian music and classical banjo.

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