Bluegrass : a history / Neil V. Rosenberg.
TITLE:
Bluegrass : a history / Neil V. Rosenberg.
Publication Date:
1985
Publication Information:
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,
Physical Description:
xii, 447 p., [40] p. of plates : ill.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [377]-405.
Summary:
"Bluegrass" chronicles the colorful story of the birth and enormous growth of one of America's most popular musical forms. Originating in the country music of the thirties and forties, bluegrass developed during the fifties and beyond into a distinctly independent form, featuring such talents as Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Ralph and Carter Stanley, Sonny and Bobby Osborne, the Country Gentlemen, the Dillards, the Lewis Family, the Johnson Mountain Boys, Jim and Jesse McReynolds, and Ricky Skaggs.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780252002656
General Note:
Includes index.
