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title: "Bluegrass: A HISTORY 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Music in American Life)"
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# Bluegrass: A HISTORY 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Music in American Life)

**Brand:** neil v. rosenberg
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- **What is this?** Bluegrass: A HISTORY 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Music in American Life) by neil v. rosenberg
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellant.
  

*by F***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2023*

Interesting read, hearing all the background and after the fact info!

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    What do you want to learn about early bluegrass?
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2009*

If you want to learn about the history of bluegrass all the way from Bill Monroe to Cherryholmes and Cadillac Sky, then Rosenberg is NOT the book for you. Although this "revised" edition was published in 2005, it is essentially the same book originally published in 1985, and even that narrative pretty well stopped in the mid-1970s.That said, this is a terrific history of the formative decades of bluegrass. Rosenberg's chronology is almost dizzying in its detail - so many musicians, record executives, festival promoters, radio station owners, magazine publishers, etc. to track in your mind as you read along. I am a former broadcaster and it was especially fun to remember what the "ecosystem" of the radio and music industries was like in the 50s and 60s.Rosenberg is at his best when analyzing the individual and cultural forces that led to the big breakthroughs for this musical form, and he exhibits a good understanding of the tensions between urban and rural fans and between young innovators and older traditionalists. The only place I think he went off track was in some overly academic analyses of bluegrass in film and television. Thanks, but I don't need to have The Beverly Hillbillies deconstructed.Overall, though, I learned a lot and gained a deeper appreciation for a musical form that I have enjoyed for many years. Well worth reading.

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    Three and a half stars, a fine starter/introduction into the genre
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2017*

Neil Rosenberg has written a fine starter-kit book for those interested in bluegrass. This one gets you into the music and allows you to understand the principals but you will have to read another book or two which are a tad more contemporary to get the entire and indeed current picture of what bluegrass music really is today. Three and a half stars if you ask me.

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