Publication Date
11-3-2017
Abstract
FFinding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 350. Paper titled "Fiddle About: Ed Carnes-Contest Fiddler" in which Randy Fox charts the history of fiddle playing and the rise of "contest fiddling" during the traditional music revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fox's main informant is Ed Carnes, an old-time fiddler who won the Kentucky State Fiddle Championship in 1981. Carnes details his beginnings as a fiddler, the recording of his fiddle-tunes album, and his travels across the country to different fiddling contests.
Disciplines
American Popular Culture | Folklore | Music
Recommended Citation
& Folklife Archives, Manuscripts, "Fox, Randy (FA 350)" (2017). FA Finding Aids. Paper 212.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_fin_aid/212
Fiddle About: Ed Carnes - Contest Fiddler (paper)
Included in
American Popular Culture Commons, Folklore Commons, Music Commons
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu