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Dwight Diller

West Virginia Mountain Musician

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Dwight Diller

West Virginia Mountain Musician

By: Lewis M. Stern

Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. For the past 40 years, he has worked to preserve archaic fiddle and banjo tunes, teaching his percussive, primitively rhythmic style to small groups in marathon banjo workshops. This book tells of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form.

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McFarland

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1476664765

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9781476664767

Tommy Malboeuf

The Life of a Carolina Fiddler

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Tommy Malboeuf

The Life of a Carolina Fiddler

By: Lewis M. Stern

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s. After his military service, Tommy found occasional work surveying and operating heavy equipment, and he also found a personal passion in bluegrass fiddling. He performed and recorded with A.L. Wood and the Smokey Ridge Boys, Roy McMillan's High Country Boys, the Border Mountain Boys, L.W. Lambert and the Blue River Boys, C.E. Ward and his band, Garland Shuping, and Wild Country, among others. In the late 1990s, Tommy began teaching fiddle, maintaining a steady stream of students until at least the early 2000s. He continued to perform as a fiddler, filling in for a variety of local bands and recording cuts on records for bands such as Big Country Bluegrass. This text documents Tommy's life, from his humble beginnings to his lengthy fiddle career. Contextualizing Tommy's work within the Statesville-Troutman bluegrass "scene," chapters also explore the local bluegrass culture of the time. Tommy's extensive repertoire is also listed, including his spectacular fiddle contest wins, band recordings, local jam field recordings, and songs recorded for students, all of which highlight his talent and expertise as a fiddler.

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1476646627

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9781476646626

Tommy Thompson

New-Timey String Band Musician

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Tommy Thompson

New-Timey String Band Musician

By: Lewis M. Stern

Tommy Thompson arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1963, smitten by folk and traditional Appalachian music. In 1972, he teamed with Bill Hicks and Jim Watson to form the nontraditional string band the Red Clay Ramblers. Mike Craver joined in 1973, and Jack Herrick in 1976. Over time, musicians including Clay Buckner, Bland Simpson and Chris Frank joined Tommy, who played with the band until 1994. Drawing on interviews and correspondence, and the personal papers of Thompson, the author depicts a life that revolved around music and creativity. Appendices cover Thompson's banjos, his discography and notes on his collaborative lyric writing.

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248

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McFarland

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1476635544

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9781476635545

Wayne Howard

Old-Time Music, the Hammons Family and Mountain Lore

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Wayne Howard

Old-Time Music, the Hammons Family and Mountain Lore

By: Lewis M. Stern

From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally creative life. He seemed to be eternally present at fiddle festivals, involved in the creative forces working to preserve Southern Mountain music. In 1969, he relocated to West Virginia and was introduced to the Hammons family by Dwight Diller. Howard then recorded Lee, Sherman, Burl, and Maggie Hammons playing music and telling stories. Howard then became a professional computer programmer, a vintage book collector, and a woodworker, before turning to writing about the Hammons family, and producing CDs of their stories and music. This biography follows the threads of music and folklore through Howard's life, celebrating his profound knowledge that does much to sustain the interest of those who seek out Appalachian tunes, songs, and stories.

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196

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McFarland

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1476642702

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9781476642703

Principles of Development

By: Lewis Wolpert,Cheryll Tickle,Alfonso Martinez Arias

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Principles of Development

By: Lewis Wolpert,Cheryll Tickle,Alfonso Martinez Arias

Developmental biology is at the core of all biology. This text emphasises the principles and key developments in order to provide an approach and style that will appeal to students at all levels.

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721

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198709889

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9780198709886

Dan Levenson

Old-Time Banjo and Fiddle Teacher, Performer and Storyteller

By: Lewis M. Stern,David Brooks

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Dan Levenson

Old-Time Banjo and Fiddle Teacher, Performer and Storyteller

By: Lewis M. Stern,David Brooks

This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose Acres Folk Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he dove deeply into old-time music. In the late 1980s, he formed the Boiled Buzzards; they recorded four albums between 1989 and 1994 and were a consistently active presence at old-time music festivals. He also played with Bob Frank during that time as one-half of the Hotfoot Duo. In 1995, he teamed up with Kim Murley and recorded New Frontier: Instrumentals from China and America. Levenson undertook his first cross-country trip as a solo performer in 1996. His traveling workshop "Meet the Banjo" ran with the sponsorship of Deering Banjos from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Dan recorded three projects in the first five years of the 2000s and began editing the quarterly "Old Time Way" section for Banjo Newsletter in 2005. He continues performing old-time music, teaching fiddle and banjo, writing instructional and repertoire books featuring banjo and fiddle tunes for Mel Bay, and making plans for more old-time music projects.

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McFarland

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1476683514

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9781476683515

Jim Scancarelli

Fiddler, Banjo Player and Gasoline Alley Cartoonist

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Jim Scancarelli

Fiddler, Banjo Player and Gasoline Alley Cartoonist

By: Lewis M. Stern

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte's longest-lived bluegrass bands, he played banjo with the Mole Hill Highlanders, and in the 1980s formed Sanitary Cafe with fiddler Tommy Malboeuf. Through the 1970s, his annual recordings at the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention captured superlative music and performer interviews. Scancarelli also had a successful career as a freelance magazine artist and collaborated on the syndicated comic strips "Mutt and Jeff" and "Gasoline Alley," eventually taking over authorship of the latter in 1986. This biography traces his creative trajectory in music, art, radio and television, and the cartooning industry.

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1476645558

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9781476645551

Defense Relations Between the United States and Vietnam

The Process of Normalization, 1977-2003

By: Lewis M. Stern

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Defense Relations Between the United States and Vietnam

The Process of Normalization, 1977-2003

By: Lewis M. Stern

Although the hostilities of the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the diplomatic repercussions lasted for several more decades. Eventually, however, the dedicated perseverance of diplomats on both sides paid off. In November 2003, Major General Pham Van Tra, defense minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, met with U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the halls of the Pentagon, signaling a new era in U.S.-Vietnamese defense relations. This book traces the development of that relationship in the years since the Vietnam War. It focuses especially on the 1990s, a decade in which the author served as country director for Indochina, Thailand and Burma in the Office of the Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. His experience adds a personal perspective to the historical and political record. Multiple facets of the relationship between the two countries are addressed, including trade, immigration of Amerasian children, and POW-MIA concerns. Through this honest depiction of the sometimes fractious and confusing policy-making process, Stern shows how both parties came to agree, in the words of Major General Tra, that we "should not allow the future to repeat the past.

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298

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McFarland

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0786421681

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9780786421688

Tommy Thompson

New-Timey String Band Musician

By: Lewis M. Stern

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New-Timey String Band Musician

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1476675082

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Dwight Diller

Dwight Diller

Tommy Malboeuf

Tommy Malboeuf

Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson

Wayne Howard

Wayne Howard

Principles of Development

Principles of Development

Dan Levenson

Dan Levenson

Jim Scancarelli

Jim Scancarelli

Defense Relations Between the United States and Vietnam

Defense Relations Between the United States and Vietnam

Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson

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