Chris Goertzen

Eck Robertson at the Crossroads of American Fiddling (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Texas Panhandle's frontier days were fresh in memory when fiddler Eck Robertson (1887-1975) arrived. Cowboys still worked on ranches in the 1910s but barbed-wire fences abounded too. Robertson pursued a continually evolving strategy to profit from the feverish transformation of living history into marketable nostalgia. He adopted cowboy dress clothes for his first recording session in New York in 1922 and became known as a "Famous Cowboy Fiddler." His stubborn vision spawned traditional-yet-transformed Texas fiddling.

Robertson criticized other fiddlers because their playing was "just the same thing over and over." Robertson insisted that his fiddling-his balance of cleaving to tradition while adding new content-was the way of the future. Author Chris Goertzen traces Robertson's story through detailed biography, music transcriptions, and careful musical analysis. Though Robertson struggled to attain consistent financial success as a performer, he cultivated a varied repertoire that allowed him to balance offering the comfort of shared recollection with fresh excitement. His biggest hit, "Sally Goodin," was a game changer, both as played live and as the very first country music recording. With his undeniable talent and forward thinking, Robertson took a musical practice that already had a broad reach and a distinguished history in a direction that would guarantee a niche in modern American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496857156
• Artikelnr.: 74154035

Autorenporträt

Chris Goertzen (1952-2025) was professor emeritus of music history and world music at the University of Southern Mississippi. His books include Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity; Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests; Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca; George P. Knauff's "Virginia Reels" and the History of American Fiddling; American Antebellum Fiddling; and Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts, the latter five published by University Press of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Young Alexander Campbell "Eck" Robertson
Chapter 2. Eck Robertson, "World Champion Fiddler"
Chapter 3. The Robertson Family in Borger, then Eck in Amarillo
Chapter 4. "Arkansas Traveller": Eck’s Musical Inheritances from Minstrelsy
and from Fiddling Traditions of the Eastern and Southeastern United States
Chapter 5. "Sally Goodin" and the Texas Fiddle Revolution
Chapter 6. "Sally Johnson," "Done Gone," and the Consolidation of the Texas
Fiddle Repertoire and Style
Tune Anthology
References
Index