The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience [With CD (Audio)]

by Stephen Wade

Book Overview

The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036883
• ISBN13: 9780252036880
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher