{"product_id":"polkabilly-how-the-goose-island-ramblers-redefined-american-folk-musicincludes-cd-9780195141061","title":"Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk MusicIncludes CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eA freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs  tunes  and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants  polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian prairies and Americas Upper Midwest  scores of groups have wed squeezeboxes with string bands  hoe downs with hambos  and sentimental Southern balladry with comic \"up north\" broken-English comedy  to create a new and uniquely American sound. The Goose Island Ramblers played as a house band for a local tavern in Madison  Wisconsin from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The group epitomized the polkabilly sound with their wild mixture of Norwegian fiddle tunes  Irish jigs  Slovenian polkas  Swiss yodels  old time hillbilly songs  \"Scandihoovian\" and \"Dutchman\" dialect ditties  frost-bitten Hawaiian marches  and novelty numbers on the electric toilet plunger. In this original study  James P. Leary illustrates how the Ramblers multiethnic music combined both local and popular traditions  and how their eclectic repertoire challenges prevailing definitions of American folk music. He thus offers the first comprehensive examination of the Upper Midwests folk musical traditions within the larger context of American life and culture. Impeccably researched  richly detailed and illustrated  and accompanied by a compact disc of interviews and performances  James P. Learys Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music creates an unforgettable portrait of a polkabilly band and its world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652559396917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195141067","price":72.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195141061.jpg?v=1781851989","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/polkabilly-how-the-goose-island-ramblers-redefined-american-folk-musicincludes-cd-9780195141061","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}