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Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World Hardback - 2016

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Author: Bill C Malone
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From the publisher

The most atypical of bluegrass artists, Bill Clifton has enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, performer, and champion of old-time music. Bill C. Malone pens the story of Clifton's eclectic life and influential career.

Born into a prominent Maryland family, Clifton connected with old-time music as a boy. Clifton made records around earning a Master's degree, fifteen years in the British folk scene, and stints in the Peace Corps and Marines. Yet that was just the beginning. Closely allied with the Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Mike Seeger, and others, Clifton altered our very perceptions of the music--organizing one of the first outdoor bluegrass festivals, publishing a book of folk and gospel standards that became a cornerstone of the folk revival, and introducing both traditional and progressive bluegrass around the world. As Malone shows, Clifton clothed the music of working-class people in the vestments of romance, celebrating the log cabin as a refuge from modernism that rang with the timeless music of Appalachia.

An entertaining account by an eminent music historian, Bill Clifton clarifies the myths and illuminates the paradoxes of an amazing musical life.

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Title Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World
Author Bill C. Malone
Binding Hardback
Pages 184
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Publication date 2016
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780252040535 / 0252040538
Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Bluegrass musicians - United States, Clifton, Bill
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016015396
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Bill C. Malone is professor emeritus of history at Tulane University. His books include Don't Get above Your Raisin' Country Music and the Southern Working Class and Country Music, U.S.A.

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