Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe

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CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Tony TrischkaIntroduction
1. Place, Meaning, Community, and In-Betweenness
2. Czech Bluegrass Histories and Backgrounds
3. Making Bluegrass at Home, Abroad, and In Between
4. Learning and Playing Americanness on the Fiddle
5. Singing Truth, Fidelity, and Play in Czech Bluegrass GospelA Tag: America/AmerikaNotes on LanguageNotesGlossary of Czech TermsReferencesRecommended MediaIndex

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Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music’s emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities.

Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that merges intimate immersion in the music with on-the-ground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician. Drawing on his own close personal and professional interactions, Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice. He also reflects on “Americanist” musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities. Bidgood sees these acts of construction as a response to the Czech Republic’s postsocialist environment but also to US cultural prominence within our global mediascape.

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Many readers will appreciate both the high level of insight, and that the text makes its points using only 124 pages. Ethnographic works about contemporary music traditions are needed, and Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe is a valuable tool, helping those interested in bluegrass music understand the rooting of the style in multiple cultures

Journal of American Folklore

This book will be of interest to those curious about the assimilation and adaptation of music forms. . . Readers eager for stories of bluegrass and country music that diverge from the common narrative of these genres being made by and for American Southerners will also appreciate the global approach to these genres

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