Bluegrass Breakdown
Subtitle: THE MAKING OF THE OLD SOUTHERN SOUND (Music in American Life)
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780252071171
Subjects: Country & western; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; Music / Bluegrass; Bluegrass music; History and criticism
First sentence: Whoever has seen Bill Monroe up close, on stage, especially in these late years of his career, will remember that he carries himself with a kind of austere majesty, as if time had already chi him, like his presidential ancestor, from a block of marble; by whatever art it is that a man conveys his character and sense of himself to the world, Monroe seems to continue a lineage that reaches back almost to Lexington, the heart of the Blue Grass and the Athens of the West.