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Speed Bumps On A Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass

Speed Bumps On A Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass Hardcover - 2019

by Cohen, John

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Powerhouse Books, 2019. Book. Illus. by author. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. 1st. edition 2019 , Hardcover in illustrated boards , 220 page book . With black & white illustrations on this music. Condition : NEW Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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  • Title Speed Bumps On A Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass
  • Author Cohen, John
  • Illustrator author
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Powerhouse Books
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 121521-J
  • ISBN 9781576879269 / 1576879267
  • Weight 2.8 lbs (1.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 11.1 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 28.19 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Country musicians, Portrait photography - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

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About the author

John Cohen was born in 1932 in New York City's Sunnyside, Queens and now lives in Putnam Valley, New York. A 1957 Yale School of Art alumnus, Cohen studied with Josef Albers. Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers with whom he toured and recorded from 1958-2008, making 20 albums. Cohen was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001 and made nine field recordings of traditional music including Roscoe Holcomb and High Atmosphere and also served as a music consultant for T Bone Burnett's Cold Mountain. Cohen's photographs are in collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Corcoran Museum and National Gallery in Washington D.C., as well as The Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The author of many books, Cohen's photography publications include There Is No Eye and Young Bob, both published by powerHouse Books, as well as Past Present Peru, Cheap Rents, Here & Gone, and Walking In The Light, all published by Steidl. Cohen was a professor emeritus of photography at SUNY Purchase College from 1972-1996 and a prolific filmmaker of 17 music documentaries including: The High Lonesome Sound, End of an Old Song, Musical Holdouts, Mountain Music of Peru, and Pericles In America, among others.