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Joe Wilson directed the National Folk Festival and worked for the National Council for Traditional Arts. This book collects his writing on the origins and cross-fertilization of various branches of folk music, roots music, and vernacular music of North America, covering styles such as minstrelsy, old-time, hillbilly, bluegrass, urban bluegrass, blues, gospel, cowboy, and country music. The writings come from liner notes, magazines, tour booklets, and unpublished manuscripts. While Wilson was a scholar, he wrote in a non-scholarly style with humor and a conversational tone, looking at issues of race, class, and ethnicity, as well as historical sources of American vernacular music. Several pieces describe the history of folk musical instruments: folk fiddle, banjo, guitar, and pedal steel. Major figures celebrated include John Dee Holman, Doc Watson, Janette Carter, The Seldom Scene, and Willie Nelson. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
