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Old-Time Music and Dance Community and Folk Revival

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ISBN-10: 025334638X

ISBN-13: 9780253346384

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Bealle

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This title is a window into the heyday of old-time music and dance in the Midwest. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social resistance, counter culture, authenticity, and identity intersect this history of the people who made up the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

John Bealle is an independent scholar who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is author of Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong and an accomplished old-time fiddler. During the time he lived in Bloomington, Indiana, he frequently accompanied Lotus Dickey.

Introduction : conjuring history
An apocryphal story
Old-time music revival
Banjo pedagogy
Back to the land
The green house
The old-time community
The jukebox
The orange sheet
Anne's a bride tonight
Opening up
Gardening and dumpstering
The bean king
The Indiana contra dancers' lament
The gang of four
Easy Street
Dance camps
The sovereign self
Bloomington Quarry Morris
May Day
Dare to be square
The Shuffle Creek Cloggers
The old library
Sugar Hill
Young audiences
Little Bloomington
Eight miles from town
The piano controversy
The book
Collection time!
The reclusive muse
Lotus Dickey
Breaking away
Blue spruce