Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World

By Paul O. Jenkins

Book Overview

Bluegrass Ambassadors is the first book-length study of the McLain Family Band, which has spread the gospel of bluegrass for more than fifty years. Interpreting the band's diverse repertoire as both a source of its popularity and a reason for its exclusion from the bluegrass pantheon, Paul Jenkins advances subtle arguments about genre, criticism, and audience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199681
• ISBN13: 9781949199680
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"