Murphy Hicks Henry
Autor(a) de Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (Music in American Life)
About the Author
Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player, teacher, and writer living in Virginia. She founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She is also the co-creator of The Murphy Method, a series of instructional videos on mostrar mais playing the banjo and other bluegrass instruments. mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo of Murphy Hicks Henry from the University of Illinois Press Blog page at http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/pretty-good-company-for-murphy-hicks-he...
Obras de Murphy Hicks Henry
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Henry, Murphy
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-05-18
- Sexo
- female
- Locais de residência
- Gainesville, Florida 197?-1986 / Winchester, Virginia, USA
- Pequena biografia
- http://www.murphymethod.com/index.cfm...
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 17
- Popularidade
- #654,391
- Avaliação
- 4.5
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 3
Pretty Good for a Girl is organized as roughly 40 profiles, usually of individuals but occasionally of bands. These are arranged more or less chronologically, with an occasional overview chapter to set things into context. This arrangement works surprisingly well, and the result is a very good history of bluegrass music as played by woman performers. There's some room for quibbling about the selection of musicians--I'd not have included the Dixie Chicks, for instance, and might have replaced them with, say, Emma Smith--but these are editorial choices, and don't really damage the overall effort. This is an excellent book, and highly recommended.
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