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Journal Article
Bill Rogers, Contemporary Traditional Mississippi Fiddler
2015
Overview
Fiddling-vernacular violin playing, largely in oral tradition--has been an important part of American musical life for centuries. Fiddlers are traditional culture bearers who, during most of our history, learned their craft through face-to-face relationships, largely within the family and neighborhood. Their fiddling was a \"tradition\" in the sense of a widely disseminated definition of that word from 1949: \"that information, those skills, concepts, products, etc., which one acquires almost inevitably by virtue of the circumstances to which he is born.\" Here, Goertzen determines the time-honored factors of family and community played in Roger's cultivation of the fiddle and the modern factors that have entered the picture, and how are those affecting younger fiddlers.
