{"product_id":"mississippi-fiddle-tunes-and-songs-from-the-1930s-9781496804075","title":"Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rediscovered treasury of old-time fiddle music with over 300 musical annotationsWhile in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbot Ferris''s beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs.In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578103763287,"sku":"9781496804075","price":35.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496804075.jpg?v=1746097932","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mississippi-fiddle-tunes-and-songs-from-the-1930s-9781496804075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}