Linthead Stomp
The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
Patrick Huber
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2008
Pages: 440
Subject: Music, Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807886786
DESCRIPTION
Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era. Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.