Fiddle:
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Fiddling suddenly seemed vitally important, even necessary, for me to learn. Perhaps it had to do with grief for my mom's death, and with the fact that I was just starting to feel the inklings of a midlife crisis coming on. All I knew consciously, though, was that I had to learn it.After a chance encounter with fiddle music, Vivian Wagner discovered something she never knew she had lacked. The fiddle had reawakened not only her passion for music, but for life itself. From the remote workshop of a wizened master fiddle maker in the Blue Ridge Mountains to a klezmer band in Cleveland, from Cajun fiddle music in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans to a fiddle camp in Tennessee, Vivian's quest to master the instrument becomes a journey populated by teachers and artisans–and ultimately creates a community that fortifies her through an emotionally crushing loss. Intimate and enlightening, this is a story about the unique gifts of the fiddle, the redeeming power of music, the freedom of improvisation–and the importance of knowing that even though a song may reach its end, there's always a new tune to learn. . ."Charming, smart, lyrical and surprising. I recommend it to anyone–savage beast or not–who needs their soul soothed." –Suzanne Finnamore, international bestselling author of Split
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Vivian Wagner. Fiddle:
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Vivian Wagner
Contents
Chapter 1. Learning to Play
Chapter 2. Mountain Heir
Chapter 3. The Fiddle Maker
Chapter 4. A Brief History of the Fiddle
Chapter 5. The Violin Shop
Chapter 6. Body and Voice
Chapter 7. Cuts, Rolls, and Audis. Learning Irish Fiddle in Dublin (Ohio)
Chapter 8. Real Men Wear Skirts. Scottish Fiddle at the Highland Games
Chapter 9. Deep, Strange Roots. Old-Time Fiddle
Chapter 10. Bluegrass Fiddle Boot Camp
Chapter 11. Klezmer in Cleveland
Chapter 12. Swinging Through the Southwest
Chapter 13. On the Wildcat Trail. Fiddle Camp
Chapter 14. Survival and Recovery. Cajun Fiddle After Katrina
Chapter 15. Fiddling Out. The Craigslist Chronicles
Chapter 16. Jamming
Chapter 17. Miles to Go
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
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Praise for Fiddle:
One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music
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Before we moved there, I studied the map of southeastern Ohio, looking at the crooked roads indicating hills, the names of villages and towns dotting the landscape: Norwich, Zanesville, Cambridge, Roseville, Crooksville, Barnesville. Southeastern Ohio is just on the edges of Appalachia, in the hilly, unglaciated part of the state. I read about the area’s history, how it had been strip-mined throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, how it was the poorest part of the state, how it was classified as Appalachia by the federal government.
Driving our U-Haul truck from Illinois, I was struck once we got past Columbus by the beauty of the green, rolling hills that seemed to go on forever; the picturesque farm houses and grazing cattle; the winding rural roads; the village with its main street, gas station, grocery store, hardware store, and post office. We bought a little white and blue-shuttered house on the western edge of the village, on a narrow street that climbed steeply up from Route 40, or the Old National Road, which cuts through the village.
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