Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

by David Menconi

Book Overview

This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state's music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina's Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469676788
• ISBN13: 9781469676784
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.7"