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Tag Archives: bluegrass
Throwbacklist Thursday
in biography, music
Tagged bluegrass, country and western, country music, Music in American Life, rockabilly, Throwbacklist Thursday
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The University of Illinois Press thinks country and western music hung the moon. Our list of C&W books reads like a who’s who of that musical form’s rhinestone-studded history. You want singers? Our bill features hitmakers and hip shakers like the Singing Sheriff Faron … Continue reading
Congratulations to Neil Rosenberg
in bluegrass, folklore, music
Tagged bluegrass, bluegrass music, Bluegrass Odyssey, Bluegrass: A History, music, Music of Bill Monroe, Neil Rosenberg
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Tonight, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) will induct folklorist, musician, bluegrass historian, and University of Illinois Press author Neil V. Rosenberg into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at its awards show in Raleigh, North Carolina. Rosenberg currently serves … Continue reading
Happy birthday to Ginger Boatwright
in bluegrass, music, Uncategorized, women's history
Tagged bluegrass, country music, Ginger Boatwright, Murphy Hicks Henry, Pretty Good for a Girl
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Bluegrass singer Ginger Boatwright was born on September 21st in 1944. She has been involved in various bands throughout the years including the Grammy nominated Red White and Blue(grass), the all-female bluegrass group the Bushwackers, and the Doug Dillard Band. … Continue reading
Read an excerpt from Pretty Good for a Girl
in biography, bluegrass, music, Uncategorized
Tagged bluegrass, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Murphy Hicks Henry, Natalie Maines, Pretty Good for a Girl, The Dixie Chicks
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PopMatters has posted an excerpt from Murphy Hicks Henry’s book about influential and often overlooked women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl. The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl documents the lives of more … Continue reading
Happy birthday to Ola Belle Reed
in bluegrass, folklore, music, women's history
Tagged banjo, bluegrass, Murphy Hicks Henry, Ola Belle Reed, Pretty Good for a Girl
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Although there is some slight dispute over her exact birthday, records say Ola Belle Campbell Reed, was born on August 18, 1916, in Lansing, North Carolina. She was the fourth of thirteen children born to Arthur and Ella May Campbell. A … Continue reading
Happy birthday to bluegrass pioneer Rose Maddox
in music, Uncategorized, women's history
Tagged bluegrass, Buck Owens, country music, Murphy Hicks Henry, Pretty Good for a Girl, Rose Maddox
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Rose Maddox, the lead singer of America’s “most colorful hillbilly band” the Maddox Brothers and Rose, was born on August 15, 1925. Rose went from very modest beginnings to fronting her family band, to a solo career that included a … Continue reading
Q&A with Murphy Hicks Henry, author of Pretty Good for a Girl
in author commentary, interviews, music, new books, Uncategorized
Tagged bluegrass, Murphy Hicks Henry, Pretty Good for a Girl, Sally Ann Forrester
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Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions about her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in … Continue reading
Women’s History Month $2.99 e-book sale
in all things digital, women's history
Tagged birth control, bluegrass, suffrage
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For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of six Women’s History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda … Continue reading