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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Missouri Historical Review
Author: The Burckhartt Family of Boonslick Country, Missouri
Author: Mary Miller SmiserPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Christopher Frederick Burkhartt (1756-1828) and Elisabeth Hobbs married in Maryland but eventually moved to Boonlick County in the unorganized portion of the Missouri Territory. Six generations of their descendants are recorded in this book.
Ozar'kin
Author: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders
Author: William WhitePublisher:
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Category : Suffolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri
Author: Howard Louis ConardPublisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Play Me Something Quick and Devilish
Author: Howard Wight MarshallPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826272932
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx
Laclede County, Missouri
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563115492
Category : Laclede County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A History of Northeast Missouri
Author: Walter WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: Marshall BermanPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860917854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Author: Charles BentPublisher:
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Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description