Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly (American Folk Music and Musicians Series): 8 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810848937 ISBN 13: 9780810848931

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2003

Synopsis

Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly reprints twenty-seven representative articles published in the JEMF Quarterly over the years, until it ceased publication in 1985. It also includes many illustrations and an introduction that seeks to place the journal in historical perspective and illuminate its central importance to the study of American culture.

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Review:

...includes an informative introduction by Porterfield detailing the history of the JEMF and the QUARTERLY itself. Thanks to Porterfield's superb choice of material, readers are introduced to many of the leading historians of country music, whose writings remain fresh today, years after the publication of their original essays. Exploring Roots Music emerges as a key reference book and an enjoyable look at the early efforts that helped define the field of country music scholarship.--Charles Wolfe "Newsletter Of The Institute For Studies In American Music "

Nolan Porterfield's Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the 'JEMF Quarterly' is a masterfully edited collection of articles spanning the entire run of these publications. Porterfield selects those pieces that resonate the most with today's readers. The value of Porterfield's collection lies in its ability both to preserve the roots of country music research--as the authors of the articles contained therein hoped to preserve the roots of country music--and to highlight the impact of the JEMF in shaping the directions that country music research still follows today.--Travis Stimeling, Millikin University, Millikin University "Journal of American Folklore "

...a welcome and winsome reminder of the exuberance, curiosity, (mostly) good humor, and barrier-breaking of one of the key publications that helped make the world safe for writing about vernacular music....Porterfield and series editor Ronald Cohen should be commended for bringing out this fine collection of articles...--Journal Of Appalachian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1

This book is more enjoyable than any anthology has a right to be. That's because of the energy and eye for detail supplied by the writers, the irascibility, humor or wisdom of many of the personalities described and, of course, Nolan Porterfield's light but deft touch on every page.--Sing Out!

It's hard to imagine anyone with a serious interest in the music being disappointed with this publication--Dirty Linen

About the Author:

Nolan Porterfield has written widely about American music and culture. He has won the Center for American History's Historical Achievement Award (1997) and has been nominated for a Grammy award for Best Album Notes (1987). He is the author of five books including his most recent, Last Cavalier - a biography of pioneer folksong collector John Lomax.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810848937
• ISBN 13: 9780810848931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Porterfield Nolan