INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC
CONFERENCE
The
26th annual International Country Music
Conference will be held beginning at Noon Thursday 21 May through Saturday
23 May 2009 in the Frist Lecture Hall of the Gordon
E. Inman Center at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee at the south end
of Music Row.
2009
Bill Brown, Ed.
D Mike
Fleming
North
Georgia Bluegrass Pioneers
Abstract: The North Georgia area has a rich
history of traditional and bluegrass music. Closely related to the country
music of early twentieth century Atlanta, it might be argued that the early
country heritage simply moved to the rural areas as Nashville became the center
for Country music. It seems only natural that these rural communities embraced
bluegrass music in the 1950s and 1960s because of the close relationship of
that music to an earlier heritage and history. Curtis Blackwell and Tut Taylor
have agreed to share experiences about this bluegrass movement of the second
half of the twentieth century and its relation to the rich cultural history of
the previous fifty years. These perspectives will be made more vivid through a
multi-media presentation.
Click
HERE
for the presentation paper
Click
HERE to
listen to the ICMC presentation of this paper.