Lively, heartfelt, and informative, 'The Bill Monroe Reader' is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation.

This is a guide to bluegrass music that traces the development of this musical genre, since its origin in Anglo-American folk tradition. Featuring writers such as Marty Stuart, David Gates, and Hunter Thompson, the selections include publications with pieces that are classics in the history of writing about bluegrass.

This book traces the lives of the Snowdens, an African American family of musicians and farmers living in rural Knox County, Ohio. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks examine the Snowdens' musical and social exchanges with rural whites from the 1850s through the early 1920s, and provide a detailed exploration of the claim that the Snowden family taught the song Dixie to Dan Emmett-the white musician and black face minstrel credited with writing the song. This edition features a new introduction in which the authors discuss the public response to this controversial claim, and present new...