Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Folklore: A Sub-Discipline of Media Studies? Chapter 4 Scopes and Evolution in Hillbilly Songs Chapter 5 Commercial Music Graphics #9: Sheet Music Covers Chapter 6 Grass Roots Commercialism Chapter 7 Between Two Cultures: One Viewer's Response to "Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends" Chapter 8 The WLS National Barn Dance Story: The Early Years Chapter 9 "I'm a Record Man": Uncle Art Satherley Reminisces Chapter 10 The Life of Alfred G. Karnes Chapter 11 International Relations, Dr. Brinkley, and Hillbilly Music Chapter 12 "Henry Clay Beattie": Once a Folksong Chapter 13 John "Knocky" Parker: A Case Study of White and Black Musical Interaction Chapter 14 "We Made Our Name in the Days of Radio": A Look at the Career of Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper Chapter 15 WNAX: Country Music on a Rural radio Station 1927-1955 Chapter 16 Woodhull's Old Tyme Masters: A Hillbilly Band in the Northern Tradition Chapter 17 Roots of the Country Yodel: Notes Toward a Life History Chapter 18 Riley Puckett: "King of the Hillbillies" Chapter 19 Folk and Hillbilly Music: Further Thoughts on Their Relations Chapter 20 Commercial Music Graphics #44: John Held Jr.: Jazz Age and Gilded Age Chapter 21 Buell Kazee Chapter 22 Columbia Records and Old-Time Music Chapter 23 Popular Music and the Fiddler Chapter 24 Country Music in Italy: A Matter of Controversy Chapter 25 The Rise and Decline of the Standard Transcription Company Chapter 26 Early Knoxville Radio (1921-1941): WNOX and the "Midday Merry Go-Round" Chapter 27 Ethnic Country Music on Superior's Southern Shore Chapter 28 Commercial Music Graphics #64: Farewell Tony Chapter 29 "Wreck on the the Highway": Rhetoric and Religion in a Country Song Chapter 30 Index Chapter 31 About the Author
Nolan Porterfield has written widely about American music and culture. He has won the Center for American History's Historical Achievement Award (1997) and has been nominated for a Grammy award for Best Album Notes (1987). He is the author of five books including his most recent, Last Cavalier - a biography of pioneer folksong collector John Lomax.
It's hard to imagine anyone with a serious interest in the music
being disappointed with this publicationnnnn
*Dirty Linen*
...includes an informative introduction by Porterfield detailing
the history of the JEMF and the QUARTERLY itself. Thanks to
Porterfield's superb choice of material, readers are introduced to
many of the leading historians of country music, whose writings
remain fresh today, years after the publication of their original
essays. Exploring Roots Music emerges as a key reference book and
an enjoyable look at the early efforts that helped define the field
of country music scholarship.
*Newsletter Of The Institute For Studies In American Music*
...a welcome and winsome reminder of the exuberance, curiosity,
(mostly) good humor, and barrier-breaking of one of the key
publications that helped make the world safe for writing about
vernacular music....Porterfield and series editor Ronald Cohen
should be commended for bringing out this fine collection of
articles...
*Journal Of Appalachian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1*
This book is more enjoyable than any anthology has a right to be.
That's because of the energy and eye for detail supplied by the
writers, the irascibility, humor or wisdom of many of the
personalities described and, of course, Nolan Porterfield's light
but deft touch on every page.
*Sing Out!*
Nolan Porterfield's Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the
'JEMF Quarterly' is a masterfully edited collection of articles
spanning the entire run of these publications. Porterfield selects
those pieces that resonate the most with today's readers. The value
of Porterfield's collection lies in its ability both to preserve
the roots of country music research—as the authors of the articles
contained therein hoped to preserve the roots of country music—and
to highlight the impact of the JEMF in shaping the directions that
country music research still follows today.
*Journal of American Folklore*
It's hard to imagine anyone with a serious interest in the music
being disappointed with this publication
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