| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! -- The reclusive muse -- Lotus Dickey -- Breaking away -- Blue spruce |
| Summary |
A window into the hey-day of old-time music and dance in the Midwest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group -- History.
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Country dancing -- Indiana -- Bloomington -- History.
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Old-time music -- Indiana -- Bloomington -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005004559 |
| ISBN |
0253111684 (electronic bk.) |
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025334638X (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9780253111685 (electronic bk.) |
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9780253346384 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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