Humanities Salon: Alan Jabbour: Fiddle Tunes from the Old Frontier

Humanities Salon: Alan Jabbour: Fiddle Tunes from the Old Frontier

History

Folklore

Ethnomusicology

Music

This footage from a Humanities Salon program features folklorist and fiddler Alan Jabbour discussing his globetrotting adventures recording fiddle music from traditional practitioners of the art. Jabbour's primary focus is Appalachia and the old American frontier. Jabbour is not only an expert in the field of ethno-musicology and a former Director of the Library of Congress Center for American Folklife, but he is also an accomplished violinist. Jabbour demonstrates many of the fiddle tunes he discusses in the program.

The program was held at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Rockville on June 21st, 2001.

Broadcast video cassette copy may be damaged; includes a note reading "won't rewind."

Joy Austin

Program - Humanities Salon

2001

Jabbour, Alan

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English

Moving Image

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598

03.P.2001

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01:27:17

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Humanities Council of Washington, DC