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Trae's Michigan Fiddle Manifesto
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by Trae McMaken.
Chip Walker and the Fisher Strike Orchestra.
By Eliot A. Singer.
How to Start Figuring out What "Michigan Fiddle Style" Is.
By Eliot A. Singer.
Cub Berdan Overview.
By Jim McKinney.
Michigan Fiddle Tunes from South of the Border.
By Glenn Hendrix.
Fiddling Poetry from OMFA Publications: Revealing How Michigan Fiddlers Thought and Felt.
Compiled for web by Trae McMaken.
Who is Lon Allen? Photographs of a Fiddler's Life in Iron County, Michigan, 1937.
Contributed by Trae McMaken.
Henry and Clara Ford's "Deportment in Dancing."
Contributed by Glenn Hendrix, with thanks to Glen Morningstar.
Patrick Bonner: History and Interviews.
B
y Glenn Hendrix.
Otto and Marguerite Wood: Dance Musicians and Callers.
By Glenn Hendrix.
A Written Excercise Towards an Understanding of Stylistics and Regionalism in Michigan Fiddling.
By Trae McMaken
Reflections on Fiddle and Dance in Early 19th Century Detroit: The French Community.
By Trae McMaken
Fiddling in L'Arbre Croche (Harbor Springs,MI) in the 1870s-1880s: a Settler's Account.
By Trae McMaken
A Black String Band and Vaudeville Tent Show from Mecosta County, Michigan ca. 1900.
By Trae McMaken
Border Fiddling: The St. Clair River of Michigan and Ontario.
By Trae McMaken
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Eliot Singer's Response to Trae's Manifesto, with follow-up from Trae.
Trae's Michigan Fiddle Manifesto
County Histories Series Part 11: Saginaw and Environs.
County Histories Series Part 10: Detroit and Grosse Point
County Histories Series Part 9: Muskegon and Allegan Counties
County Histories Part 8: City of Flint and Genesee County
County Histories Series: Part 7: Berrien and Van Buren Counties
County Histories Series Part 6 (enough Roman numerals): Kalamazoo County
County Histories Series: Part V: Hillsdale County
County Histories Series: Part IV: Newaygo, Eaton, and Calhoun Counties
County Histories Series: Part III: Leelanau and Grand Traverse Region
County Histories Series: Part II: Antrim
County Histories Series: Introduction and Part I
Excerpts from the "Posen Fiddlers" Episode of Down Home Dairyland by Jim Leary and Richard March
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The Dr. James P. Leary 1989 Michigan Fieldwork
Chip Walker and the Fisher Strike Orchestra
Band Spotlight: Nick and His Cornhuskers, a Long-Lived Modern and Old Time Thumb Dance Band
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