Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests

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  • Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests Book Detail

  • Author : Chris Goertzen
  • Release Date : 2009-12-16
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Genre : Music
  • Pages : 172
  • ISBN 13 : 1604733314
  • File Size : 69,69 MB

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests by Chris Goertzen PDF Summary

Book Description: Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests explores the phenomenon of American fiddle contests, which now have replaced dances as the main public event where American fiddlers get together. Chris Goertzen studies this change and what it means for audiences, musicians, traditions, and the future of southern fiddle music. Goertzen traces fiddling and fiddle contests from mid-eighteenth-century Scotland to the modern United States. He takes the reader on journeys to the important large contests, such as those in Hallettville, Texas; Galax, Virginia; Weiser, Idaho; and to smaller ones, including his favorite in Athens, Alabama. He reveals what happens on stage and during such off-stage activities as camping, jamming, and socializing, which many fiddlers consider much more important than the competition. Through multiple interviews, Goertzen also reveals the fiddlers' lives as told in their own words. The reader learns how and in what environments these fiddlers started playing, where they perform today, how they teach, what they think of contests, and what values they believe fiddling supports. Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests shows how such contests have become living embodiments of American nostalgia.

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