Murphy Hicks Henry
Autor de Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (Music in American Life)
Sobre El Autor
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 más playing the banjo and other bluegrass instruments. mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: 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
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Henry, Murphy
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-05-18
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Gainesville, Florida 197?-1986 / Winchester, Virginia, USA
- Biografía breve
- http://www.murphymethod.com/index.cfm...
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 17
- Popularidad
- #654,391
- Valoración
- 4.5
- Reseñas
- 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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