Drawing on decades of research, folklorists Jim Leary and Richard March have distilled a definitive presentation of Upper Midwestern traditional and ethnic music, from Ojibwa drums to Norwegian fiddles, from polka to salsa, from gospel choirs to southeast Asian rock bands. The book Down Home Dairyland: A Listener s Guide provides a wonderful overview of Wisconsin s musical heritage through forty essays, fifty-seven photographs, plus a rich discography and bibliography.
Both the cassette and the music CD sets provide samplings from the Down Home Dairyland series of forty...

This lively and colorfully illustrated book documents Wisconsin folk traditions in the 1990s: building Harley motorcycles and Ojibwe birch bark canoes; gatherings at neighborhood taverns, polka dances, the Mexican neighborhood store, or the sturgeon-spearing shanties on Lake Winnebago; working on a dairy farm or at a lakeside fish market; brokering a Hmong marriage or restoring the Dickeyville Grotto; and "cheeseheads" tailgating at Lambeau field before a Green Bay Packers football game.
Written for a general readership by folklorists, cultural anthropologists, and historians, this book...