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Fiddler’s Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri

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In this sequel to Howard Marshall’s in advance book on old-time fiddlers in Missouri, Play Me Something Quick and Devilish, the writer uses oral history, archival photographs, and transcriptions of decided on tunes to track the evolution of traditional fiddle music in Missouri from the early 1920s to the abrupt changes in American society and traditional music within the 1960s. The book specializes in fiddle music in on a regular basis life at music parties, dances, pie suppers, festivals, contests, and oprys. Marshall’s wealth of information, gained through an entire life of involvement in Missouri fiddle traditions, gives the book exceptional richness and depth.

This book features a CD with 30 archival recordings from 1939 to 2015, produced by Voyager Records.

A Missouri Humanities Council grant helped fund the production of this book.
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