Description: Further DetailsTitle: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain BreakdownCondition: NewSubtitle: The Making of an American ClassicISBN-10: 0252084780EAN: 9780252084782ISBN: 9780252084782Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/13/2019Description: Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television. Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" against the backdrop of Scruggs's legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Bela Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs's musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.Passionate and long overdue, Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown takes readers on an ear-opening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmAuthor: Thomas GoldsmithGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Music in American LifeTopic: BiographyItem Weight: 286gRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Title: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Subtitle: The Making of an American Classic
ISBN-10: 0252084780
EAN: 9780252084782
ISBN: 9780252084782
Release Date: 09/13/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Music in American Life
Book Title: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown : the Making of an American Classic
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Topic: Printed Music / Guitar & Fretted Instruments, Composers & Musicians, General, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Thomas Goldsmith
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Music in American Life Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
