Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s

by Harry Bolick, Stephen T. Austin, Stephen T. Austin

Book Overview

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496804074
• ISBN13: 9781496804075
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"