Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, DC

With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly documents the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s.

In his seventeenth book, American vernacular music scholar Kip Lornell discusses both well-known progressive bluegra...