Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje

Fiddling Is My Joy

The Fiddle in African American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• American Made Music Series
• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1022g
• ISBN-13: 9781496856562
• ISBN-10: 1496856562
• Artikelnr.: 72108394

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is professor emerita, former chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, and former director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. She is author of numerous articles and books, including Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures, which won both the Alan Merriam Prize and the Kwabena Nketia Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
About Fiddling Is My Joy Companion on eScholarship
Prologue
Section One—Pre–Twentieth Century: The Beginnings and Rise in Popularity of
Black Fiddling
Introduction
Chapter 1—The Earliest Evidence: Black Fiddling During the 1600s and 1700s
Polydor Gardiner Rhode Island
Caesar, Cato, and Robert Prim Connecticut
Othello and Sampson Massachusetts
Cuffee, Jamaica, and John Marrant New York
Peter Philadelphia
Derby, Peter, Robert, Sambo, Simeon Gilliat, Devereux Jarratt, and George
Walker Virginia
Clarinda South Carolina
Chapter 2—A General Overview: Black Fiddling During the 1800s
Chapter 3—A Regional Perspective: Black Fiddling During the 1800s
The Snowden Family Band Ohio
James Thomas Tennessee
Ben Guyton Alabama
George Morris West Virginia
Augustus "Gus" Cochran Alabama
Solomon Northup New York, Louisiana
Gus Rhodes Alabama
The Owens Family Mississippi
Charles Lipscomb Texas
Section Two—Early Twentieth Century: The Decline in Prominence of Black
Fiddling
Introduction
Chapter 4—Black Fiddling and Secular Music in the Rural South
Central Appalachian Mountains and Neighboring Regions
Chapter 5—Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
William Adams Jr. Maryland
George Leonard Bowles Virginia
Carl Choice Martin Virginia
Posey Foddrell Virginia
Stephen Tarter Virginia
Mert Perkins West Virginia
Jilly Grace West Virginia
Chapter 6—Kentucky
Owen Walker
James "Jim" D. Booker Jr.
Arnold Shultz
Ella Shultz Griffin
Shell Coffey and Charlie Buster
William "Bill" Livers
Chapter 7—Tennessee
Frank Patterson Jr.
John Lusk
Bennie "Cuje" Bertram
Walter Greer
Joel Rice
Chapter 8—North Carolina
Madison Boone
Joseph Thompson
Southern Appalachian Mountains and Neighboring Regions
Chapter 9—South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
Henry J. Bryant South Carolina
Andrew Baxter Georgia
Fort Valley College Music Festival Georgia
Elbert J. Freeman Georgia
Joe Kinney Rakestraw Georgia
Alfred Thomas Georgia
George Hollis Georgia
Earnest Mostella Alabama
Sidney Hemphill Mississippi
Robert "Bob" Pratcher Mississippi
Thomas Jefferson Dumas Mississippi
The Ozark Mountains
Chapter 10—Missouri
Ace Donell Sr.
William "Bill" Katon
William "Bill" Alexander Driver Jr.
South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and Neighboring Regions
Chapter 11—Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas
Fred Perry Florida
Eddie West Alabama
Bo Chatmon [Carter], Harry Chatmon Mississippi
Lonnie Chatmon Mississippi
Henry "Son" Simms Mississippi
Blind Pete Arkansas
Chapter 12—Louisiana, Texas
James "Butch" Cage Mississippi/Louisiana
Morris Chenier Louisiana
Douglas Bellard Louisiana
Joseph "Bébé" Carrière Louisiana
Calvin Carrière Louisiana
Canray Fontenot Louisiana
Charlie Thomas Texas
Oscar William Nelson Texas
Teodar Jackson Texas
Epilogue
Howard Armstrong Tennessee
References Cited: Print Sources, Interviews, Personal/Email Communication
References Cited: Discography, Film and Video, Radio, Websites
Index