Bluegrass in Baltimore
Author | : Tim Newby |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-06-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786494392 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786494395 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Download or read book Bluegrass in Baltimore written by Tim Newby and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book to take an in-depth look into how the music that was played in Baltimore came to wield influence across a broad musical landscape."--Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the bluegrass world. Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities, personal demons and always the up-hill battle with prejudice against their hillbilly origins. Based upon interviews with legendary players from the golden age of Baltimore bluegrass, this book provides the first in-depth coverage of this transplanted-roots music and its broader influence, detailing the struggles Appalachian musicians faced in a big city that viewed the music they made as the "poorest example of poor man's music."