Chris Goertzen: 4 books

Book cover of George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
by Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction,...
Book cover of Made in Mexico

Made in Mexico

Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca

by Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

This book concerns the aesthetic, political, and socio-political aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking "authenticity" buy crafts and festival tickets, and spend even more on travel expenses. What does a craft object or a festival moment need to...
Book cover of Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology
by Jonathan McCollum, Keith Howard, Judah M. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology demonstrates various ways that new approaches to historiography––and the related application of new technologies––impact the work of ethnomusicologists who seek to meaningfully represent music traditions across barriers of both time and space....
Book cover of Good Medicine and Good Music

Good Medicine and Good Music

A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography

by David Hursh, Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009

Alice Morgan Person (1840–1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished...
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