APPALACHIAN BLACK FIDDLING: HISTORY AND CREATIVITY
- Title
- APPALACHIAN BLACK FIDDLING: HISTORY AND CREATIVITY
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Old-time music
- European Americans
- African Americans
- Country music
- Musical instruments
- Appalachian region
- United States
- Appalachia
- Fiddle (Instrument)
- Black Fiddling
- Hillbilly Music
- African Music
- Abstract
- Discussions on Appalachian music in the United States most often evoke images of instruments such as the fiddle and banjo, and a musical heritage identified primarily with Europe and European Americans, as originators or creators, when in reality, many Europeans were influenced or taught by African-American fiddlers. Not only is Appalachian fiddling a confluence of features that are both African- and European-derived, but black fiddlers have created a distinct performance style using musical aesthetics identified with African and African-American culture. In addition to a history of black fiddling and African Americans in Appalachia, this article includes a discussion of the musicking of select Appalachian black fiddlers.
- Description
- pages: 77-101
- Created Date
- December 1, 2020
- Copyright Date
- January 1, 2020
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- University of California, Los Angeles
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-03d9
- Identifier
-
2315
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 82918
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