Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conjuring History

1. An Apocryphal Story
2. Old-Time Music Revival
3. Banjo Pedagogy
4. Back to the Land
5. The Green House
6. The Old-Time Community
7. The Jukebox
8. The Orange Sheet
9. Anne's a Bride Tonight
10. Opening Up
11. Gardening and Dumpstering
12. The Bean King
13. The Indiana Contra Dancers' Lament
14. The Gang of Four
15. Easy Street
16. Dance Camps
17. The Sovereign Self
18. Bloomington Quarry Morris
19. May Day
20. Dare to Be Square
21. The Shuffle Creek Cloggers
22. The Old Library
23. Sugar Hill
24. Young Audiences
25. Little Bloomington
26. Eight Miles from Town
27. The Piano Controversy
28. The Book
29. Collection Time!
30. The Reclusive Muse
31. Lotus Dickey
32. Breaking Away
33. Blue Spruce

References
Index

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About the Author

John Bealle is an independent scholar who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is author of Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong and an accomplished old-time fiddler. During the time he lived in Bloomington, Indiana, he frequently accompanied Lotus Dickey.

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