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Article: Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions. By Erynn Marshall. CD included. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 271. $25.00, ISBN 1-933202-05-X.)
Erynn Marshall based her research for this book on interviews she conducted from 2000 through 2003 with seven West Virginia traditional musicians, most of whom she became acquainted with through the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia. The book, which is a revision of her master's thesis for York University, focuses primarily on the topic of fiddle songs. It is a solid contribution to the body of work on Appalachian music ...