Fiddle tunes from Mississippi : commercial and informal recordings, 1920-2018 /

"Beginning with Tony Russell's original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with Russell, Harry Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78-rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Stepper...

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Authors / Creators: Bolick, Harry (Author), Russell, Tony, 1946- (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Cauthen, Joyce H., 1944- contributor.
Evans, David, 1944- contributor.
Moore, T. DeWayne, contributor.
Russell, Tony, 1946- author.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Series:American made music series.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Doc Bailey: talent scout, Winona / Tony Russell
  • Community of fiddlers in Mississippi / Harry Bolick
  • The segregation of sound: unheard African American fiddlers / T. DeWayne Moore
  • About the music / Harry Bolick
  • John Anderson / Harry Bolick
  • Tim Avalon / Harry Bolick
  • Mumford Bean and His Itawambians / Tony Russell
  • Dink Brister / David Evans
  • Enos Canoy and the Canoy Wildcats / Harry Bolick
  • The Carter Brothers and Son / Tony Russell
  • Augustus Eugene Clardy / T. DeWayne Moore
  • The Collier Trio / Tony Russell
  • Mike Compton / Harry Bolick
  • Jabe Dillon / Harry Bolick
  • Thomas Jefferson Dumas / T. DeWayne Moore
  • Freeny's Barn Dance Band and the Freeny Harmonizers / Tony Russell
  • John Studivan Gatwood / Harry Bolick
  • Homer Clyde Grice / Harry Bolick
  • Sidney Hemphill Sr. / T. DeWayne Moore
  • Claude Kennedy / Harry Bolick
  • The Leake County Revelers / Tony Russell
  • The Leake County Revelers on record / Tony Russell
  • The Leake County String Band / Harry Bolick
  • Senator George Cecil McLeod / Harry Bolick
  • The Meridian Hustlers / Tony Russell
  • Milner and Curtis / Tony Russell
  • The Mississippi Possum Hunters / Tony Russell
  • The Mississippi Sheiks / T. DeWayne Moore
  • Sylvester S. Moran / Harry Bolick
  • Willie T. Narmour and Shellie Walton Smith / Harry Bolick
  • The Nations Hrothers / Tony Russell
  • The Newton County Hill Billies/Alvis Massengale / Harry Bolick
  • Grover Clater O'Briant / Harry Bolick
  • Jimmy Porter / Joyce Cauthen
  • Bob Pratcher / Harry Bolick
  • Jerry Prescott / Harry Bolick
  • Herb Quinn / David Evans
  • The Ray Brothers / Tony Russell
  • Afterword / Harry Bolick
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Index.