Murphy Hicks Henry
Författare till Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (Music in American Life)
Om författaren
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 visa mer playing the banjo and other bluegrass instruments. visa färre
Foto taget av: 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...
Verk av Murphy Hicks Henry
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Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Henry, Murphy
- Födelsedag
- 1952-05-18
- Kön
- female
- Bostadsorter
- Gainesville, Florida 197?-1986 / Winchester, Virginia, USA
- Kort biografi
- http://www.murphymethod.com/index.cfm...
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 17
- Popularitet
- #654,391
- Betyg
- 4.5
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 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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