Keep it old-time : fiddle music in Missouri from the 1960s folk music revival to the present /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-445) and index."Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present, the third volume on the history and culture of traditional fiddle music in Missouri, together with Play Me Something Quick and Devilish (2013) and Fiddler's Dream (2017), represents Howard Marshall's lifelong fascination with music history and musicians. Epic in proportion, the journey starts with what we know of fiddle and dance music from the early French settlements in the mid-1700s colonial period through the changes in American society and traditional music in the 1960s. Keep It Old-Time picks up the story in the heady days of the Folk Music Revival in the 1960s and winds down in the early twenty-first century, recounting the emergence of folk and bluegrass festivals, the continuation of fiddle contests, and evolving modes of learning. As in the previous volumes, Marshall seeks out the people, stories, and communities that make informal, traditional music for their own enjoyment, particularly folk-singing, bluegrass, old-time fiddling, swing, and jazz. Oral history, archival photographs, and transcriptions of tunes complement the text, as does a companion CD with 36 tunes played by fiddlers in the book." -- Book jacket flap.Machine generated contents note: