This is a detailed work placing bluegrass music into a historical, as well as musicological, cultural, and imaginative context. Robert Cantwell has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina. Bluegrass Breakdown is his first book, and it won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ambassador of Honour Book Award.
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This is a detailed work placing bluegrass music into a historical, as well as musicological, cultural, and imaginative context. Robert Cantwell has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina. Bluegrass Breakdown is his first book, and it won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ambassador of Honour Book Award.
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Very Good + The Making of the Old Southern Sound. 8vo. In glossy, illustrated wrappers. 309 pages, with Selected Bibliography, Notes, and Index. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. No names or marks. The first Da Capo printing.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Presumed first edition, 1984, hardcover with orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 309pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild sun to spine and edges of panels, mild tear to spine head.
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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. ASIDE FROM LIBRARY MARKINGS, FREE OF WRITING IN SECURE BINDING. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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FINE IN PICTORIAL WRAPS. FIRST DA CAPO PRESS EDITION 1992 / FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1984 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
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