Mississippi has nurtured plenty of kinds of traditional music among a wide range of ethnic groups. Mississippi is most famous for blues, but there has also been fiddling and country music, both social dance music and powwow music among the Choctaw and, more recently, Latin popular music and ballroom dance music and the music of Vietnamese immigrants.
Speakers Expertise:
Dr. Chris Goertzen is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi with a focus on Western Music History and World Music, American Vernacular Music, and Mexican Crafts. He has authored several books author such as
Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity;
Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests;
Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca;
George P. Knauff's “Virginia Reels” the History of American Fiddling; and
American Antebellum Fiddling.
