Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia

by Gerald Milnes (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $39.10

  Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity.