From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music - Hardcover

Ledgin, Stephanie P.; Charles Osgood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578067405 ISBN 13: 9781578067404

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2005

Synopsis

A close-up of stars and innovators from blues, bluegrass, country, folk, Celtic, and Cajun music

About this title

About the Author:

Stephanie P. Ledgin is a journalist and photographer who has focused on bluegrass and traditional folk music since 1975. She is the author of Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass, and her articles and photographs have appeared in numerous music magazines.

From Publishers Weekly:

This exhilarating collection of 200 b&w and color photographs focuses on the musicians, singers and dancers of folk music, encompassing bluegrass, blues, Cajun, Celtic and country. The sounds of fiddle and banjo are nearly audible as readers flip through shots of Roy Acuff's Smoke Mountain Boys from the late 1970s, David "Dawg" Grisman on stage at the Bottom Line in 1985, and a spontaneous bluegrass jam in a hotel lobby in Louisville, Ky., in 2003. Some of the musicians that journalist and photographer Ledgin has captured are famous-e.g,. Béla Fleck, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Wynona Judd, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson-but many are not; and interviews with figures like Bill Monroe, "Father of Bluegrass," shed light on the musicians' motivations for playing the music. The dance photos are striking, particularly a shot of the Green Grass Cloggers, who introduced choreographed routines based on four-couple western square dance figures, in which the quartet leaps into the air, shirts and skirts flying. These photos, taken over the past 30 years, pay tribute to a quintessential American art form.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1578067405
• ISBN 13: 9781578067404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146