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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Bluegrass Music"”.
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Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music
… primarily associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne …
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Discover. Reveal. Educate.: Making a School for Bluegrass Music in Floyd, Virginia
… architectural platform for this exploration is a music conservatory dedicated to teaching the traditional mountain music of Appalachia. The rich history of mountain music and its centuries-old conversational method of conveyance remain the underlying premise of this thesis. A successful bluegrass …
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Shape-note and Bluegrass Music in the Choral Curriculum: An Experiment in Implementation of Potential New Genres
University of Washington Abstract Shape-note and Bluegrass Music in the Choral Curriculum: An Experiment in Implementation of Potential New Genres John Eric Rutherford Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Giselle Wyers School of Music Bluegrass and shape-note music provide an important link to our …
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A Comparison of Bluegrass Bands: 2013 Bands Versus the 1940s-1960s Bands
<p>The present study investigated the bluegrass music genre of 2013 and compared it with bluegrass found in the 1940s and 1960s. To date, only one similar study has been identified. In 1963, L.M. Smith completed a study entitled, Bluegrass Music and Musicians: An Introductory Study of a Musical …
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Recreating and Deconstructing the Shifting Politics of (Bluegrass) Festivals
… from 15 festival field sites, I examine bluegrass festivals as sites of identity production through feminist methodologies and a participatory ethnographic approach. This requires careful analysis of the nature of the genre's audience and audience members' investments in the process of …
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A Sociotechnical Network Analysis of Bluegrass Practitioners and Instruments: Competing Definitions, Motivating Authenticities, and Tradition-Respecting Innovations
… based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) to the bluegrass musical community. Three definitional emphases are identified within bluegrass; these emphases structure and bound the network based on instrumental practices, historical progression, or the community. The study shows how bluegrass …
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Self-accompaniment and improvisation in solo jazz piano: Practice-led investigations of assimilation, ostinatos and ‘hand splitting’
… techniques derived from a range of different music styles, a series of self-accompaniments were devised. In addition, the process of developing improvisational facility over these accompaniment patterns was documented. Although performing solo requires a different approach to ensemble work, …