- Series: Readings in African Studies
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Quarry Books (August 31, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 025334638X
- ISBN-13: 978-0253346384
In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana,
began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional
American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of
accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately
void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John
Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and
Dance Group--how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and
how it grew to shape and influence new waves of traditional music and
dance. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social
resistance, counter culture, authenticity, and identity intersect this
delightful history. More than a story about the people who forged the
group or an extraordinary convergence of talent and creativity, Old-Time
Music and Dance follows the threads of American folk culture and the
social experience generated by this living tradition of music and dance.
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