Green Sky, Blue Grass

Green Sky, Blue Grass
Author: Matthias Claudius Hofmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9783735607515
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An interdisciplinary investigation into how colors vary in the eyes and minds of people across cultures worldwide The title of this volume and its accompanying exhibition at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt alludes to ancient Japanese poetry in which the sky is sometimes described as green and the grass as blue. The world is full of color no matter where one looks, but not every culture interprets the spectrum of shades in the same way, nor do individual people always see the same colors despite our physiological similarities. This publication highlights pieces from the museum's collection, ranging in origin from the Amazon to Tibet, as anthropological case studies in the exploration of color and the meanings ascribed to different hues. In concert with essays from the fields of philosophy, linguistics and physics, Green Sky, Blue Grassuncovers the complexity of human perception across the globe.

Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music

Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music
Author: Craig Harris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1455624020
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A colorful and comprehensive history of bluegrass and old-time Appalachian music from its legendary roots to today’s Grammy-winning stars. With simple instrumentation—banjo, guitar, and base—a great variety of musical traditions converged to create the “old-timey” music of Appalachia. Over time, that mountain sound evolved into numerous genres and subgenres that continue to thrive today. Now musician and roots music historian Craig Harris takes readers on an anecdotal journey through this distinctly American music. From the Grand Ole Opry and the historic Bristol Sessions to contemporary festivals and the reemergence of Bluegrass in popular culture, Harris combines extensive research and never-before-seen photographs with more than ninety exclusive interviews. Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music is chock full of anecdotes about Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Alison Kraus, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and more.

Bluegrass in Baltimore

Bluegrass in Baltimore
Author: Tim Newby
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786494395
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With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the bluegrass world. Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities, personal demons and always the up-hill battle with prejudice against their hillbilly origins. Based upon interviews with legendary players from the golden age of Baltimore bluegrass, this book provides the first in-depth coverage of this transplanted-roots music and its broader influence, detailing the struggles Appalachian musicians faced in a big city that viewed the music they made as the "poorest example of poor man's music."

The Portable Community

The Portable Community
Author: Robert Owen Gardner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351022040
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This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the author develops the thesis that the relationships, networks, and intimate forms of social interaction in the “portable” community cultivated at bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations that shape participants’ relationships to their localities. With specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community identity, place, and action following devastating local floods that destroyed homes and businesses, displacing residents for years, The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and music in grappling with social and environmental change, including their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in symbolic interactionism, the sociology of music, culture, and the sociology of disaster.

Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies

Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies
Author: William J. Evans
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1394152906
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Pick and roll your way through bluegrass banjo basics The banjo nearly defines the bluegrass sound, and you’ll be playing your own favorite tunes—or maybe writing some new ones—with the help of this book. Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies is the place to start if you’re ready to start learning banjo or upgrade your skills to play in the bluegrass style. Written by an expert musician and educator, this book makes it easy to start plucking your 5-string banjo using common bluegrass techniques. You’ll also have access to over 100 online audio files, and 35 video lessons, so you can see and hear the techniques in practice. This book serves as your first step to becoming a bluegrass banjo player, even if you’re completely new to playing musical instruments. Choose the right banjo, pick up the basics, learn classic banjo licks, and more—the easy way. Learn how to read banjo tablature and perform on a five-string banjo Get insight on playing as part of a bluegrass combo band Practice with classic bluegrass tunes and banjo licks Create banjo solos that will wow your audiences This friendly For Dummies guide is great for fledgling banjo players interested in the bluegrass style. Whether or not you already play another instrument, you’ll pick up the banjo basics you can show off at your next local bluegrass festival.

Carolina Bluegrass

Carolina Bluegrass
Author: Gail Wilson-Giarratano PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 162585627X
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In the Carolinas, bluegrass is more than music--it's a way of life. The origins of the genre date back to the earliest frontier settlements, and banjo music appeared at dances in Greenville, South Carolina, as early as 1780. The genre was essential to socialization in the textile mills of both states. Old-time music of the Blue Ridge Mountains heavily influenced the sound. Bill Monroe, considered by many to be the father of bluegrass, began his recording career in Charlotte in 1936. Many of the most popular bands, such as the Hired Hands and Briarhoppers, regularly performed live on local television stations in Columbia, Spartanburg and Charlotte. Today, bluegrass festivals fill local calendars across the region. Author Gail Wilson-Giarratano uses interviews and the historic record to tell this unique and compelling story.

Red Blooded

Red Blooded
Author: Caitlin Sinead
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459290046
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Instead of eating ramen and meeting frat guys like most college freshmen, Peyton Arthur is on the campaign trail. Traveling with her mother, the Democratic pick for vice president, she's ordering room service, sneaking glances at cute campaign intern Dylan and deflecting interview questions about the tragic loss of her father. But when a reporter questions her paternity, her world goes into a tailspin. Dylan left Yale and joined the campaign to make a difference, not keep tabs on some girl. But with the paternity scandal blowing up and Peyton asking questions, he's been tasked to watch her every move. As he gets to know the real Peyton, he finds it harder and harder to keep a professional distance. When the media demands a story, Peyton and Dylan give them one—a fake relationship. As they work together to investigate the rumors about her real father and Peyton gets closer to learning the truth, she's also getting closer to Dylan. And suddenly, it's not just her past on the line anymore. It's her heart. 70,180 words

Americana Music

Americana Music
Author: Lee Zimmerman
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1623497019
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With roots in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, the Piedmont, Memphis, and the prairies of Texas and the American West, the musical genre called Americana can prove difficult to define. Nevertheless, this burgeoning trend in American popular music continues to expand and develop, winning new audiences and engendering fresh, innovative artists at an exponential rate. As Lee Zimmerman illustrates in Americana Music: Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound, “Americana” covers a gamut of sounds and styles. In its strictest sense, it is a blanket term for bluegrass, country, mountain music, rockabilly, and the blues. By a broader definition, it can encompass roots rock, country rock, singer/songwriters, R&B, and their various combinations. Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, and Tom Petty can all lay valid claims as purveyors of Americana, but so can Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, and Jason Isbell. Americana is new and old, classic and contemporary, trendy and traditional. Mining the firsthand insights of those whose stories help shape the sound—people such as Ralph Stanley, John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Chris Hillman (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers), Paul Cotton and Rusty Young (Poco), Shawn Colvin, Kinky Friedman, David Bromberg, the Avett Brothers, Amanda Shires, Ruthie Foster, and many more—Americana Music provides a history of how Americana originated, how it reached a broader audience in the ’60s and ’70s with the merging of rock and country, and how it evolved its overwhelmingly populist appeal as it entered the new millennium.

American Bluegrass Music Groups

American Bluegrass Music Groups
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230512860
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: The Greencards, Nickel Creek, The Stanley Brothers, Gary Ruley and Mule Train, Old Crow Medicine Show, The String Cheese Incident, Walker's Run, Nothin' Fancy, The Grascals, Joey + Rory, The Seldom Scene, Northern Lights, The Lilly Brothers, New Grass Revival, The Dixie Bee-Liners, Old School Freight Train, Coal Porters, Charles River Valley Boys, Railroad Earth, Foggy Mountain Boys, Uncle Earl, Jim & Jesse, Johnson Mountain Boys, The Dillards, Barefoot Manner, Punch Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Country Gentlemen, Hayseed Dixie, David Grisman Quintet, Moss Creek, New South, Leftover Salmon, Danger in the Air, The Isaacs, The GrooveGrass Boyz, The Waybacks, The Hackensaw Boys, Chatham County Line, Split Lip Rayfield, The Ditty Bops, Oakhurst, Rank Strangers, Greensky Bluegrass, Hot Rize, Del McCoury Band, The Greenbriar Boys, Hot Buttered Rum, Plexigrass, The Rarely Herd, Mountain Heart, Kentucky Thunder, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out, Rose's Pawn Shop, The Biscuit Burners, Dailey & Vincent, None of the Above, Barnraisers, Steep Canyon Rangers, Crooked Still, The Water Tower Bucket Boys, Billy Hill and the Hillbillies, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Hit and Run, The Freight Hoppers, Muleskinner, Red Molly, Packway Handle Band, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Reno and Smiley, Chesapeake, Arkamo Rangers, The SteelDrivers, King Wilkie, Old and in the Way, The Cockman Family, Black Prairie, Infamous Stringdusters, Cornmeal, Robin and Linda Williams, Trampled by Turtles, Spontaneous Combustion, Elephant Revival, Iron Horse, Cherryholmes, The Okee Dokee Brothers, Three Day Threshold, The Mighty Lumberhorn, The Lewis Family, Kokomo Bros, The Severin Sisters, The Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys, Pert Near Sandstone, Acoustic Syndicate, Black Jake and The Carnies, Coon Creek Girls, Cast Iron Filter, Dry Branch...

Locally Brewed

Locally Brewed
Author: Anna Blessing
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1572847298
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Locally Brewed celebrates the Midwest's craft brewing movement with profiles of 20 of the area's brewmasters and their breweries. These are entertaining and inspiring stories of the individuals who have been essential in the exponential growth of this movement, as told through vivid interviews, beautiful photography, and dynamic artwork. In just the past 20 years, beer has been transformed from a "low-class" drink to a pluralistic, populist drink with the same stylistic diversity and caring craftsmanship as wine. One of the strongest hotbeds of this cultural shift is in the Midwest, where independently owned craft brewers focus on the creative, artisanal elements of the beer-making process. Locally Brewed explores these trends and the fun, fascinating, and unique details of each brewery, including label art, hand-pull designs, and of course the brews themselves. This is a book that can be enjoyed by the “beer geek” and the casual imbiber alike, as it emphasizes the people behind the beer as well as the beers they brew. Special sidebars and pullouts show what makes each brewery special, weaving together the story of the indie beer movement, relevant to both small-town Midwesterners and big-city beer lovers.