Embedded Files
PUBLICATIONS: NEIL V. ROSENBERG
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
The Music of Bill Monroe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Co-authored with Charles Wolfe.
Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Co-authored with Carl Fleischhauer.
Paperback, 2006.
Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Edited collection of essays.
Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
"Twentieth Anniversary Edition" (with added "Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition," ix-xiii), 2005.
Japanese translation, by Taisuke and Hisae Nishigauchi. Tokyo: Shohakusha, 2002.
Paperback, 1993.
Proceedings of the Atlantic Canada Institute Colloquium, Interiors: Cultural Patterns in the Atlantic Canadian Home. Special issue of the Material History Bulletin, 15 (1982). Co-edited with Shane O'Dea.
Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert. Folklore and Language Publications: Bibliographical and Special Series 7. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980. Co-edited with Kenneth S. Goldstein.
Folklore and Oral History. Folklore and Language Publications: Bibliographical and Special Series 3. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1978.
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys: An Illustrated Discography. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, 1974.
ESSAYS IN BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
"Foreword." In Industrial Strength Bluegrass, ed. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021, vii-xiii. Revised version of 1979 "Industrial Strength Bluegrass," see "Articles in Non-Academic Publications," below.
"Fiddlers, Dancing, Art and Utility: What Isn't Traditional?" In Ón gCos go Cluas: From Dancing to Listening (Fiddle and Dance Studies From around the North Atlantic 5), ed. Liz Doherty and Fintan Vallely. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 2019. 1-13.
"Folklore at Memorial or How I Came to Newfoundland." In Creating a University: The Newfoundland Experience, ed. Stephen Harold Riggins and Roberta Buchanan. St. John's: ISER Books, 2019. 141-156.
"A Folklorist's Exploration of the Revival Metaphor." In The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival, ed. Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 92-113.
"The Politics of Organology and the Nova Scotia Banjo: An Essay in Honour of Beverley Diamond." In Music Traditions Cultures & Contexts, ed. Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. 181-207.
"The Newfoundland Bluegrass Scene." In Bluegrass Atlantic 2005, ed. Nancy Keddy. Upper Sackville, Nova Scotia: The Editor, 2005. 22.
"Notes on the Songs." In "Catch ahold this one . . ." Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume 1, ed. Eric West. Ladle Cove, Newfoundland: Vinland Music, 2002 (4th edition). 54-56. Revised, 2012.
Reprinted in Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador, School Edition, ed. Eric West. Ladle Cove, Newfoundland: Vinland Music, 2005. 86-89.
"The Springhill Mine Disaster Songs: Class, Memory, and Persistence in Canadian Folksong." In Northeast Folklore: Essays in Honor of Edward D. Ives, ed. Pauleena MacDougall and David Taylor. Orono, Maine: The University of Maine Press and The Maine Folklife Center, 2000. 153-87.
"What's International about the International Bluegrass Music Association?" In Popular Music: Intercultural Interpretations, ed. Toru Mitsui. Kanazawa: Kanazawa University Graduate Program in Music, 1998. 289-97.
"Strategy and Tactics in Fieldwork: The Whole Don Messer Show." In The World Observed: Reflections on the Fieldwork Process, ed. Edward D. Ives and Bruce Jackson. Urbana: U of IL Pr., 1996. 144-58
"Neil V. Rosenberg." In "Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival, ed. Ronald D. Cohen. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1995. 71-78.
Originally titled "The Indiana University Folksong Club and the Bloomington Scene."
"Starvation, Serendipity, and the Ambivalence of Bluegrass Revivalism." In Transforming Tradition, ed. Neil V Rosenberg. Urbana: U of IL Pr, 1993. 194-202.
"Country Music--Popular or Folk?" In All That Glitters, ed. George Lewis. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State U Popular Pr., 1993. 151-60.
"MUNFLA, A Newfoundland Resource For The Study Of Folk Music." In Studies in Newfoundland Folklore: Community and Process, ed. Gerald Thomas and J.D.A. Widdowson. St. John's: Breakwater, 1991. 154-165.
"Whose Music is Canadian Country Music?--A Précis." In Ethnomusicology in Canada, ed. Robert Witmer. Toronto: Institute for Canadian Music (CanMus Documents 5), 1991. 236-38.
"The Folklorist as Record Producer." In Time & Temperature, ed. Charles Camp. Washington: American Folklore Society (A Centennial Publication of the American Folklore Society), 1989. 40-41.
"Folksong In Newfoundland: A Research History." In Ballades et chansons folkloriques ("Actes de la 18e session de la Commission pour l'étude de la poésie de traditional orale [Kommission für Volksdichtung] de la S.I.E.F. [Société internationale d'ethnologie et de folklore]"), ed. Conrad Laforte. Québec: CELAT, Université Laval, 1989. 45-52.
"Blue Moon of Kentucky: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Birth of Bluegrass." In Country: The Music and the Musicians, ed. Paul Kingsbury and Alan Axelrod. New York: Country Music Foundation/Abbeville Press, 1988. 186-221.
"Studying Maritime Folklore in Secondary Schools: Some Suggestions." In Teaching Maritime Studies, ed. P.A. Buckner. Fredericton: Acadiensis (Sources in the History of Atlantic Canada 5), 1986. 204-08.
"Big Fish, Small Pond: Country Musicians and Their Markets." In Media Sense: The Folklore-Popular Culture Continuum, ed. Peter Narváez and Martin Laba. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State U Popular Pr., 1986. 148-166.
"Introduction To Folksong." In Teaching Folklore, ed. Bruce Jackson. Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series, 9. Buffalo, N.Y.: Documentary Research, 1984. 139-49. Revised edition, 1989: 118-128.
"'It Was A Kind of Hobby': A Manuscript Song Book and Its Place in Tradition." In Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert, ed. Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg. 315-33.
"Herbert Halpert: A Biographical Sketch." In Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert, ed. Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg. 1-13.
"Regionalism and Folklore in Atlantic Canada." In Canadian Folklore Perspectives, ed. Kenneth S. Goldstein. Folklore and Language Publications: Bibliographical and Special Series 5. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1978. 3-19.
"Folklore in Atlantic Canada: The Enigmatic Symbol." In Atlantic Provinces Literature Colloquium Papers, ed. Kenneth MacKinnon. Saint John: Atlantic Canada Institute, 1977. 79-86.
"Neil V. Rosenberg." In Roads into Folklore: Festschrift in Honor of Richard M. Dorson, ed. Richard A. Reuss and Jens Lund. Folklore Forum Bibliographic and Special Series 14. Bloomington, Indiana: Folklore Forum, 1975. 52-3.
"Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs." In Stars of Country Music, ed. Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloh. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. 255-73.
"Conception Bay, Newfoundland: Change and Continuity in Folklore." In Proceedings of the 1974 Annual Conference. St.John's: Canadian Museums Association, 1974. 125-7. With David J. Hufford.
ARTICLES AND REVIEW ESSAYS
"How Will I Explain About You?: Intellectual and Academic Uses of Bluegrass." International Country Music Journal 2018: 45-62.
"'She's Like the Swallow': Folksong as Cultural Icon." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 22 (2007): 77-115.
Available online: http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/10098/10353
"Family Values Seeger Style." Folklife Center News 29.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2007): 3-11.
"Lead Belly Reissues as Sound Documentary: From Item to Event." Journal of American Folklore 116 (2003): 219-229.
"Repetition, Innovation, and Representation in Don Messer's Media Repertoire." Journal of American Folklore 115 (2002): 191-208.
"American Folksong Scholarship: A Response to Norm Cohen." Southern Folklore 56.1 (1999): 27-33.
"Notebook/Carnet: The Anthology of American Folk Music and Working-Class Music." Labour/Le Travail 42 (1998): 327-32.
"The Folklore Studies Association of Canada After Twenty Years: Whence and Wither." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 20.3-4 (Dec. 1996): 11-13 (francais: 14-16).
"Kenneth S. Goldstein, Producer of Folk Revival and Country Recordings." Journal of American Folklore 109 (1996): 457-61.
"Picking Myself Apart: A Hoosier Memoir." Journal of American Folklore 108 (1995): 277-86.
"From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: The Classification of Traditional Instrumental Music." Journal of American Folklore 108 (1995): 186-201.
"Don Messer's Modern Canadian Fiddle Canon." Canadian Folk Music Journal 22 (1994): 23-35.
"The Canadianization of Newfoundland Folksong; Or, The Newfoundlandization of Canadian Folksong." Journal of Canadian Studies 29.1 (Spring 1994): 55-73.
"From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: Representations." Journal of American Folklore 106 (1993): 450-461.
"From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: Reissues." Journal of American Folklore 106 (1993): 190-204.
"From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: Bluegrass Today." Journal of American Folklore 105 (1992): 459-70.
"From the Sound Recordings Review Editor: Documentary Sound Recordings." Journal of American Folklore 105 (1992): 344-58.
"'An Icy Mountain Brook': Revival, Aesthetics and the 'Coal Creek March.'" Journal of Folklore Research 28 (1991): 221-40.
Reprint: In Archie Green, ed., Songs About Work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, No. 3) and the Occupational Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 1993. Pp. 163-83.
"Omar Blondahl's Contribution to the Newfoundland Folksong Canon." Canadian Folk Music Journal 19 (1991): 20-27.
Available online: http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/19/v19art4.html
"The Gerald S. Doyle Songsters and the Politics of Newfoundland Folksong." Canadian Folklore canadien 13.1 (1991): 45-57.
"Maurice Ruddick: In Memory." Canadian Folk Music Bulletin 25.1 (Spring 1991): 12-14.
"From the New Sound Recordings Review Editor: Collecting Our Thoughts." Journal of American Folklore 104 (1991): 92-102.
"Canadian Newspapers as Source Material: Further Notes on James Douglass Bohee (1844-1897)." Black Music Research Bulletin 10.2 (Fall 1988): 15-17.
"Ethnicity and Class: Black Country Musicians in the Maritimes." Journal of Canadian Studies ("Atlantic Aspects" issue) 23.1/2 (Spring/Summer 1988): 138-56.
Winner of one of the Popular Culture Association's 1988 Fishwick Awards for the best articles on popular culture studies from 1988 publications in any scholarly journals outside of those published by the Popular Press.
Reprint: In Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer, eds., Canadian Music: Issues of Hegemony and Identity. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994. Pp. 415-46. Includes author's new postscript.
"MUNFLA Cataloguing Practices: A Description." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 11.3/4 (Nov. 1987): 33-43.
"They Started Calling It Bluegrass." Journal of Country Music 10.3 (1985): 57-70.
"Outline for a Canadian Folklore Archives Cataloguing Practices Network." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 8.3/4 (1984): 24-27.
Translation: by Laurel Doucette and Gerald Thomas: "Apercu du reseau d'informatique: archives de folklore au Canada." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 9.3/4 (1985): 7-9.
"Bluegrass, Rock and Roll, and 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.'" The Southern Quarterly 22.3 (1984): 66-78.
"Image and Stereotype: Bluegrass Sound Tracks." American Music 1.3 (1983): 1-22.
"The Folklorist and the Phonograph Record: An Introduction to Analytic Discography." Canadian Folklore Canadien 3 (1981): 127-35.
"The Newfoundland Express Again." Canadian Folk Music Bulletin 16.4 (1982): 22-5.
"ACI 1981 Colloquium--A Report." Atlantic Canada Institute Newsletter 1.1 (1982): 3-4.
"Newfoundland [on 'The Newfoundland Express']." Canadian Folk Music Bulletin 16.2 (1982): 7-9.
"Newfoundland Report." Canadian Folk Music Society Bulletin 15.1 (1981): 5.
"The Devil in the Back Seat." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 4.3/4 (1980): 13-19.
Reprint: Festschrift for Kenneth S. Goldstein. Ed. Roger D. Abrahams. Bloomington, IN: Trickster Pr., 1995. Pp. 245-52. Includes new author's introduction.
"A Word from the President." Bulletin of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada 3.3/4 (1979): 2-3.
"Regional Stereotype and Folklore--Appalachia and Atlantic Canada." Appalachian Journal 7 (1979-80): 46-50.
"Bob Dylan in Nashville." Journal of Country Music 7.3 (1978): 54-66.
"Collection Organization." Center for Southern Folklore Newsletter 2.2 (1979): 12-13.
"Goodtime Charlie and the Bricklin: A Satirical Song in Context." Journal of the Canadian Oral History Association 3 (1978): 27-46.
Available online: www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/viewFile/315/389
"MUNFLA: The Development of a Folklore and Language Archive at Memorial University." Laurentian University Review 8.2 (1976): 107-14. With Herbert Halpert.
Reprint: Folklore Studies at Memorial University: Two Studies. Department of Folklore Reprint Series 4. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1978.
"Studying Country Music and Contemporary Folk Music Traditions in the Maritimes: Theory, Techniques and the Archivist." Phonographic Bulletin 14 (1976): 18-21.
Reprint: Country Music in the Maritimes: Two Studies. Department of Folklore Reprint Series 2. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1976.
"Folklore Work at Memorial University." The Canadian Forum Mar. 1974: 31-2. With Herbert Halpert.
Reprint: Folklore Studies at Memorial University: Two Studies. Department of Folklore Reprint Series 4. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1978.
"'Folk' and 'Country' Music in the Canadian Maritimes: A Regional Model." Journal of Country Music 5 (1974): 76-83.
Reprint: Country Music in the Maritimes: Two Studies. Department of Folklore Reprint Series 2. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1976.
"Repertoire Categorization and Performer-Audience Relationships: Some Newfoundland Examples." Ethnomusicology 16 (1972): 397-403. With George J. Casey and Wilfred W. Wareham.
"The MacEdward Leach Collection of Canadian Folklore." Bulletin/Newsletter of the Canadian Folk Music Society 5 (1970): 1-10. With Carole Henderson [Carpenter].
"Taking Popular Culture Seriously: The Beatles." Journal of Popular Culture 4 (1970): 53-56.
"Some Comments on Folklore in the Mass Media." Folklore Forum 3 (1970): 39-41.
"The Communication of Attitudes: White Folklore about Negroes." Negro American Literature Forum 3 (1969): 88-90.
"The Indiana University Folklore Archives." Indiana Folklore 1 (1968): 110-12.
"From Sound to Style: The Emergence of Bluegrass." Journal of American Folklore 80 (1967): 143-50.
Reprints:
(1) JEMF Reprint Series 11 (1967).
(2) A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western and Gospel Music. Ed. Linnell Gentry. Nashville: Clairmont Corp., 1969. 309-18.
(3) Bluegrass Unlimited 3.7 (1969): 6-12.
"Negro Folksongs in Michigan from the Repertoire of J.D. Suggs." The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist 9 (1966): 3-41. With Richard M. Dorson and George List.
"Folksongs of the Maine Woods." The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist 8 (1965): 3-33. With Richard M. Dorson and George List.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ESSAYS
"Bluegrass Music" in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VIII, Genres: North America. London: Continuum, 2012. 56-64. Joint article with Robert Cantwell; author of "International" section, 61-62.
"Bluegrass" and "Whose Music Is Canadian Country Music?" In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3, The United States and Canada, ed. Ellen Koskoff. New York, Garland, 2001. 158-68, 172; 1109-11.
"Bluegrass;" "Flatt and Scruggs." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan, 2000.
"Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys." In The Encyclopedia of Country Music, ed. Paul Kingsbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 173-74. Revised edition, 2011.
"Bluegrass." In Popular Music Studies: A Select International Bibliography, ed. John Shepherd et al. London: Mansell, 1997.
"Folk Music" and "Revivals." In Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, ed. Thomas A. Green. Riverside: ABC-CLIO, 1997. 340-43, 723-25.
"Bluegrass," "Monroe, Bill," and "Revivalism." In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York: Garland, 1996. 89-90, 490-91, 622-23.
"Bluegrass;" "Bill Monroe;" "Earl Scruggs." In Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: U of NC Pr, 1989. 993-5, 1071-2, 1082-3.
"Bluegrass Music;" "Monroe, Bill;" "Ralph Stanley" (with Dave Marsh); In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. New York: Macmillan, 1986. 1: 240-41; 3: 260; 4: 295-6.
"Folk Music, Anglo-Canadian: Newfoundland." In Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Ed. Helmut Kallman, Gilles Potvin, and Kenneth Winters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. 337-38.
Revised and updated in Second Edition, ed. Helmut Kallman and Gilles Potvin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. 473-74.
"Bluegrass music;" "Monroe, Bill [William] (Smith)." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1980. 2: 812; 12: 499-500.
COMMENTARIES, INTRODUCTIONS, OBITUARIES, PREFACES
“Mayne Smith Passes.” Bluegrass Today December 3, 2025. https://bluegrasstoday.com/mayne-smith-passes/
“Over Jordan: Toru Mitsui” Bluegrass Unlimited 57.12 (June 2023): 11-12.
“Toru Mitsui”. [in Japanese] Moon Shiner 40-06 (April 2023): 12-13.
“Toru Mitsui Passes”. Bluegrass Today April 4, 2023. https://bluegrasstoday.com/toru-mitsui-passes/
"Judith Binkele McCulloh (1935-2014). Journal of American Folklore 129 (2016): 97-98.
"Getting to Know Gary Reid" in Gary B. Reid, The Music of the Stanley Brothers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xi-xiii.
"Ralph Charles Rinzler, 2012”. In Fred Bartenstein, Gary Reid et al, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies 1991-2014. Louisville: Holland Brown, 2014. 202-205.
"Foreword" to Bluegrass Bluesman, by Josh Graves, Edited by Fred Bartenstein. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. vii-viii.
Reprinted as "Burkett Howard 'Josh' or 'Buck' Graves, 1997," in Fred Bartenstein, Gary Reid et al, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies 1991-2014. Louisville: Holland Brown, 2014. 74-77.
[Doc Watson obit] "blog post: Bluegrass scholar remembers Doc Watson." CBC music, posted by Tom Power May 29, 2012. Available online:
http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/5/Bluegrass-scholar-remembers-Doc-Watson
"Remembering Peter." MMaP Newsletter (Winter 2012): 1, 6-7.
"Introduction." In Sonny's Dream: Essays on Newfoundland Folklore and Popular Culture, by Peter Narváez. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Publications, 2012. ix-xxi.
"Carlton Haney -- A Bluegrass Life," The Bluegrass Blog, April 11, 2011. [My comments included]. Available online:
http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/carlton-haney-a-bluegrass-life/
"Michael Seeger." Journal of American Folklore 123 (2010): 329-330.
“Introduction to "Bluegrass in 2010" by Dan Hays & Nancy Cardwell. International Bluegrass 25.4 (April/May/June 2010). 1.
"Snuffy Jenkins." In The Legacy of Two Legends: Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill. By Pat J. Ahrens. [Columbia, S.C.]: the author, 2007. 1.
"Charles K. Wolfe (August 14, 1943-February 9, 2006)." Bluegrass Unlimited 40.10 (April 2006): 15.
"Foreword." In Come Hither to go Yonder. By Bob Black. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix-x.
"Foreword to the 2004 Reprint." In Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland, by Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland (Folklore and Language Publications), 2004. ix-xxv. With Anna Kearney Guigné.
[Note to readers about the translation of Bluegrass: A History, translated into Japanese by Taisuke Nishigauchi]. Moonshiner 20.1 (November 2002): 17.
"Commentary." Ethnologies 23.2 (2001): 80-82; 87. Transcript of discussions following Barbro Klein, "A World of Nations: Internationalism and the Dilemma of Folklorists." Ethnologies 23.2 (2001): 61-80.
"Herbert Halpert 1911-2000." Folk Music Journal 8.2 (2002): 256-58.
"Introduction." In Whistling Banjoman George Hector. By Anne Fawcett. Gagetown, N.B.: Otnabog Editions, 1999. xi-xii.
"Last Chorus: Edith Fowke." Sing Out! 41.2 (Aug. Sept. Oct. 1996): 34.
"George M. Story (1927-1994)." Journal of American Folklore 107 (1994): 415-16.
"Last Chorus: Henry Thomas Hibbs--Newfoundland Accordionist/Singer." Sing Out! 35.1 ([July] 1990): 35.
Introduction. In Proceedings of the Atlantic Canada Institute Colloquium, Interiors: Cultural Patterns in the Atlantic Canadian Home. Ed. Neil V. Rosenberg and Shane O'Dea. Special issue, Material History Bulletin 15 (1982). 1-3. With Shane O'Dea.
Introduction. In Travelling the Outports: Two Studies in Newfoundland Itinerant Culture. By Michael Taft. Department of Folklore Reprint Series 6. St.John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1981. 1-7.
Preface. In Will O' The Wisp; Folk Tales and Legends of New Brunswick. By Carole Spray. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1979. ix-xi.
"Introduction: Folk Music Panel." Canadian Folk Music Journal 5 (1977): 3-5.
Available online: http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/5/v5art2.html
BIBLIOGRAPHY, DISCOGRAPHY
"Bluegrass Scholarship--A Survey." Bluegrass Unlimited 26.3 (Sept. 1991): 39-40.
"Canadian Bluegrass Albums: A Preliminary List." Bluegrass Canada Magazine:
1.5 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 18-19 (Pt. 1);
1.6 (Mar./April 1990): 11 (Pt. 2).
"The Flatt & Scruggs Discography." Journal of Country Music:
12.3 (June 1989): 46-48 (The Mercury Sessions, 1948-50);
13.1 (Dec. 1989): 40-45 (The Columbia Recordings, 1950-59);
13.2 (Aug. 1990): 29-35 (The Columbia Recordings, 1960-64);
13.3 (Jan. 1991): 30-38 (The Columbia Recordings, 1965-69);
14.1 (Aug. 1991): 37-46 (Releases, 1949-69).
"Dayton Bluegrass: A Selected Discography." In [Dave Barbour, ed.] The Dayton Bluegrass Reunion [Concert Program, April 22, 1989]. Dayton: Cityfolk, 1989. 14-15
"Newfoundland Fiddle Recordings: An Annotated Discography." Canadian Folk Music Society Bulletin 19.3 (Sept. 1985): 5-6.
"Discography Update." Bluegrass Breakdown 7.3 (1981): 19-21.
"The Works of Herbert Halpert: A Classified Bibliography." Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert. 15-30.
"A Preliminary Bibliography of Canadian Old Time Instrumental Music Books." Canadian Folk Music Journal 8 (1980): 20-2.
Available online: http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/8/v8art4.html
"Bill Keith Discography." Banjo Newsletter:
2.8 (1975): 4-7;
2.11 (1975): 11-13.
"Rock Books: An Incomplete Survey." JEMF Quarterly 8 (1972): 48-56, 109-16.
"'Whitehouse Blues'--'McKinley'--'Cannonball Blues': A Biblio-Discography." JEMF Quarterly 4 (1968): 45-58.
"Nine Reasons for Getting Acquainted with a Japanese Bluegrass Fan." Bluegrass Unlimited 2.4 (1967): 6-7.
"Osborne Brothers Discography." Bluegrass Unlimited:
1.12 (1967): 2-5;
2.1 (1967): 6-8;
2.3 (1967): 2-3.
"Bluegrass: A Selective Discography." IUFC Newsletter 1.5 (1963): n.p.
SOUND RECORDINGS EDITED
Tony Trischka: Earl Jam. Down The Road DTR00151 [LP], DTR00152 [CD], 2024. Liner notes.
Winner, Liner Notes of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Awards, 2025.
Kubasonics: Kubasongs. Urban Garlic KUBL P 009, 2022. Liner notes.
Roland White and Friends: A Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels. Mountain Home MH17242, 2018. Liner notes, 2 pp.
Jerry Garcia: Before The Dead. Round Records, 2018. Listening notes and commentary, 32 pp.
Bobby Osborne: Original. Compass 7 4687 2, 2017. Liner notes, 4 pp.
Nominated for Best Bluegrass Album, Grammy Awards, 2018.
Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys: The Legendary 1950-51 Sessions Restored. Richard Weize Archives ACD 12501, 2017. Notes with Dick Spottswood and Charlie Smith, pp. 5-34; Discography with additions by Matt Barton, Charlie Smith, Dick Spottswood, and Christian Zwarg, pp. 35-58.
Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe. Compass 4616, 2013. Liner notes, 5 pp.
Winner, Best Liner Notes, Album of the Year, 2014 International Bluegrass Music Awards. Nominated for Best Bluegrass Album, Grammy Awards, 2015.
Carl Story: Bluegrass, Gospel, and Mountain Music 1942-1959. Bear Family BCD 16839 DK, 2011. Discograpy in book (part of boxed set) with Eddie Stubbs, Colin Escott and Richard Weize, pp. 85-97.
With Body and Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute to Bill Monroe. Rebel REB-CD-7528, 2011. Liner notes, 12 pp.
Let the Light Shine Down: A Gospel Tribute to Bill Monroe. Rebel REB-CD-7529, 2011. Liner notes, 12 pp.
Saturday Night Jamboree on CBC Newfoundland. Memorial University Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media and Place, Back on Track series, 2007. Producer, co-author, essay in booklet, 20 pp.
Bill Monroe: My Last Days on Earth, Bluegrass 1981-1994. Bear Family BCD 16637 DK, 2007. Producer; co-author, book with essay and discography, 82 pp.
Tony Trischka: Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular. Rounder 0548. 2007. Liner notes.
Winner, Recorded Event of the Year, Instrumental Album of the Year, 2007 International Bluegrass Music Awards. Nominated for Best Bluegrass Album, Grammy Awards, 2007.
Sam & Kirk McGee Live: 1955-1967 Outstanding In Their Field. Spring Fed Records (The Arts Center of Cannon County [TN]) SFR-103, 2005. Includes field recordings made at Bean Blossom, Indiana, by NVR in 1966.
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys Live at Mechanics Hall. Acoustic Disc (Archive Series) ACD-59, 2004. Essay in booklet, 19 pp.
Blue Moon of Kentucky: Bill Monroe, 1936-1949. Bear Family BCD 16399 FL, 2002. Discography in book (part of boxed set), pp. 68-73.
Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals. Rounder 11661-0461-2, 1999. Essay in booklet, 9 pp.
Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza. Acoustic Disc ACD-35, 1999. Essay in booklet: "About the Musicians," 9 pp.
Nominated for Best Bluegrass Album, Grammy Awards, 1999.
Old & In The Way: Breakdown. Acoustic Disc ACD-28, 1997. Song notes, 5 pp. ("Original Live Recordings from 1973--Vol. II").
Available online: http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Breakdown.htm
Anthology of American Folk Music, ed. Harry Smith. Smithsonian/Folkways SFW 40090, 1997. Essay in booklet: "Notes on Harry Smith's Anthology," pp. 35-37.
Best Album Notes, Grammy Awards, 1998.
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass. Smithsonian/Folkways SF CD 40065, 1996. Liner notes.
That High Lonesome Sound: Old and In The Way. Acoustic Disc ACD-19, 1996. Booklet with liner notes, 14 pp. ("Original Live Recordings from 1973--Vol. I").
The Osborne Brothers 1968-1974. Bear Family BCD 15748 DI, 1995. 4 CD set with booklet. Discography (with Bobby Osborne), pp.17-23.
The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968. Bear Family BCD 15598 DI, 1995. 4 CD set with booklet, 23 pp., containing liner notes (with Eddie Stubbs) and a discography (with Bobby Osborne).
Flatt & Scruggs 1964-1969, plus. Bear Family BCD 15879 DI, 1995. 5 CD set with booklet. Discography (with Edward L. Stubbs & Richard Weize), pp. 18-25.
Bill Monroe: Bluegrass 1970-1979. Bear Family BCD 15606, 1994. 4 CD set with booklet. Discography (with others), pp. 28-29.
Flatt & Scruggs: 1959-1963. Bear Family BCD 15559, 1992. 5 CD set with booklet containing a discography and liner notes.
Steve Pottier and Sandy Rothman: Bluegrass Guitar Duets. Tone Bar TBR-CD 1833, 1992. Liner notes.
The Dillards: There Is A Time (1963-1970). Vanguard VSD 131/132, 1991. Liner notes.
The Country Gentlemen: Folk Songs and Bluegrass. Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40022, 1991. Liner notes.
Bill Monroe Blue Grass 1959-69. Bear Family BCD 15529, 1991. 4 CD set with booklet containing a discography and liner notes, the latter co-edited with Charles K. Wolfe.
Flatt & Scruggs: 1948-1959. Bear Family, BCD 15472, 1991. 4 CD set with booklet containing a discography and liner notes.
Named to the American Folklife Center's American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1991: A Selected List.
Jimmy Martin. Rounder CD SS 21, 1990. Liner notes.
Reprint: In Thomas Goldsmith, ed. The Bluegrass Reader. Urbana: U of IL Pr, 2004. Pp. 58-61.
Kazuhiro Inaba: Hard Times, Come Again No More. Red Clay RC 109, 1989. Liner notes.
Bill Monroe Blue Grass 1950-1958. Bear Family BCD 15423, 1989. 4 CD set with 65-page book containing a discography and liner notes, the latter co-edited with Charles K. Wolfe.
Named to the American Folklife Center's American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1989: A Selected List.
Close to Home. C.T.H. 151, 1988. Liner notes.
The McCoury Brothers. Rounder Records 0230, 1987. Liner notes.
Named to the American Folklife Center's American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1987: A Selected List.
Revised edition, Rounder CD 0230, 1995.
Gordon Quinton: Wildwood Flower. Woodnight Records ACR-7067, 1986. Liner notes.
Flatt & Scruggs: The Mercury Sessions, Vols. 1 & 2. Rounder Records Special Series 18-19, 1985. Liner notes, selection of contents.
Named to the American Folklife Center's American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1985: A Selected List.
Flatt & Scruggs/Reno & Smiley--Bluegrass Vol.II. The Franklin Mint Record Society, Country Music Foundation Official Archive Collection: The Greatest Country Music Recordings of All Time, #59 & 60, 1984. Brochure, 8 pp.; selection of contents.
Here Today. Rounder 0169, 1983. Liner notes.
Revised edition, Rounder CD 0169, 1993.
Ray Johnson: A Breath of Newfoundland. Pigeon Inlet Productions PIP-738, 1982. Co-produced and liner notes co-authored with Peter Narváez.
Flatt & Scruggs. Time-Life Records Country & Western Classics TLCW-04, 1982. Booklet, 24 pp.; selection of contents.
The Nova Scotia Ramblers: The Sunny Side of Life. CMS 001, 1981. Liner notes.
Bill Monroe/The Stanley Brothers--Bluegrass Vol. I. The Franklin Mint Record Society, Country Music Foundation Official Archive Collection: The Greatest Country Music Recordings of All Time, #7 & 8, 1981. Brochure, 8 pp.; selection of contents.
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: Don't Get Above Your Raisin'. Rounder Records Special Series 08/Columbia Special Products P14816, 1979. Liner notes.
Revised edition, Rounder CD SS 08/Sony Music Special Products A 22695, 1992.
"Folk-Songs of America": The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-32. Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, Archive of Folksong AFS L-68, 1978. Co-edited with Debora G. Kodish. Brochure, 29 pp.; selection of contents.
Available online: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/index.html
Bill Monroe with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: The Original Bluegrass Band. Rounder Records Special Series 06/Columbia Special Products P13911, 1978. Liner notes, selection of contents.
The Osborne Brothers. Rounder Records Special Series 04, 1978. Liner notes, selection of contents.
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen. Rounder Records Special Series 03, 1977. Liner notes; brochure, 4 pp.; selection of contents.
Flatt & Scruggs: The Golden Era. Rounder Records Special Series 05/Columbia Special Products P-13826, 1977. Liner notes, selection of contents.
Revised edition, Rounder CD SS 05/Sony Music Special Products A 22614, 1992.
Hills & Home: Thirty Years of Bluegrass. New World Records NW 225 (Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.), 1976. Liner notes, 4 pp.; selection of contents.
Reprint of liner notes: Ramblin's [The Missouri Area Bluegrass Committee], Mar. 1977: 1-2; Apr. 1977: 8, 10; May 1977: 4, 6, 8.
The Mac Wiseman Story. CMH-9001 (Bluegrass Classic Series), 1976. Liner notes for inside of double jacket.
Won't You Come and Sing for Me?--Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster. Folkways FTS 31034, 1973. Brochure, 3 pp.
Reprint of first portion of these notes: "Neil Rosenberg: Those Intriguing Liner Notes." Women in Bluegrass 28 (January 2002): 3-4.
Early Blue Grass. RCA Victor Vintage Series LPV-569, 1969. Liner notes, selection of contents.
VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
Newfoundland Country Music Pioneers: Wilf Doyle. Memorial University of Newfoundland Educational Television Centre, PB-10491, 1979. 42 minute color videocassette. Research (with Peter Narváez), narrator, interviewer.
Available online: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/2673
Newfoundland Country Music Pioneers: Jimmy Linegar. Memorial University of Newfoundland Educational Television Centre, PB-10244, 1978. 35 minute color videocassette. Research, narrator, interviewer.
Available online: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/2665
PODCASTS
87: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Neil Rosenberg, June 20, 2022, at: https://www.bluegrassunlimited.com/podcasts/page/2/
ARTICLES IN NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Revue Early Recordings. November 19, 2024, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-revue-early-recordings/ [#21]
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Revue Beginnings. September 16, 2024, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-revue-beginnings/ [#20]
Artist of the Month: Tony Trischka Plays Earl Scruggs on New Album, ‘Earl Jam’. July 3, 2024, at: https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/artist-of-the-month-tony-trischka/
Reprint: Bluegrass Canada 19:1 (January 2025): 44-45; 19:2 (April 2025): 22-23.
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Revue in 1975. June 20, 2024, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-revue-part-1/ [#19]
Bluegrass Memoirs: Visiting Rusty York (Part 2). November 28, 2023, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-visiting-rusty-york-part-2/ [#18]
Bluegrass Memoirs: Visiting Rusty York (Part 1). October 23, 2023, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-visiting-rusty-york-part-1/ [#17]
Bluegrass Memoirs: Lexington, Kentucky and J.D. Crowe in 1973. April 21, 2023, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-lexington-kentucky-and-j-d-crowe-1972/ [#16]
Bluegrass Memoirs: Jackson, Kentucky Bluegrass, January 6, 2023, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-jackson-kentucky-bluegrass/ [#15]
Translation: Moon Shiner 40-04 (Feb. 2023): 13-15; Moon Shiner 40-05 (Mar 2023): 16-18.
Bluegrass Memoirs: The First Canadian Bluegrass Festival (Part 2), 2022, October 3, 2022, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: The First Canadian Bluegrass Festival (Part 1), 2022, August 31, 2022, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: 'Industrial Strength Bluegrass' and the Dayton Bluegrass Reunion (Part 4), March 25, 2022, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: 'Industrial Strength Bluegrass' and the Dayton Bluegrass Reunion (Part 3), October 26, 2021, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: 'Industrial Strength Bluegrass' and the Dayton Bluegrass Reunion (Part 2), August 11, 2021, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: 'Industrial Strength Bluegrass' and the Dayton Bluegrass Reunion (Part 1), June 25, 2021, at:
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Celebration, Part 3. Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, April 30, 2021, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-celebration-part-3/ [#8]
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Celebration, Part 2. Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, April 2, 2021, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-celebration-part-2/ [#7]
Bluegrass Memoirs: The Earl Scruggs Celebration, Part 1. Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, Feb 10, 2021, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-the-earl-scruggs-celebration-part-1/ [#6]
Bluegrass Memoirs: Old-time, Ragtime & Mrs. Etta Baker. Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, December 9, 2020, at: https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-old-time-ragtime-mrs-etta-baker/ [#5]
"Bluegrass Memoirs: Thanks to Eric Weissberg." Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, October 19, 2020, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-thanks-to-eric-weissberg/. [#4]
"Bluegrass Memoirs: New Twists & Scruggs Pegs Take Off." Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, September 18, 2020, at: https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-new-twists-scruggs-pegs-take-off/. [#3]
"Bluegrass Memoirs: Scruggs Pegs & Earl's Hooks." Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, August 17, 2020, at: https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-scruggs-pegs-earls-hooks/. [#2]
"Bluegrass Memoirs: Mayne Smith & Alice Gerrard." Posted at The Bluegrass Situation, June 24, 2020, at:
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/bluegrass-memoirs-mayne-smith-alice-gerrard/. [#1]
"(Not So Much) A Thing of the Past," No Depression (Winter 2016): 48-55.
"Ralph Rinzler" Posted ca. December 27, 2012 at:
http://bluegrassmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/2012-inductee-ralph-rinzler/ (IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame @ International Bluegrass Music Museum).
Published as "Ralph Charles Rinzler -- 2012" in The Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies 1991-2014, ed. Fred Bartenstein, Gary Reid & others. Louisville: Holland Brown, 2014, pp. 202-205.
[untitled piece on Carlton Haney] Posted on The Bluegrass Blog, April 11, 2011 at: http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/carlton-haney-a-bluegrass-life/.
"Bluegrass in Canada, Parts 1 & 2." Posted on Bluegrass Gazette, June and July 2010 at: http://www.Bluegrassgazette.com
"Rex Yetman" Posted on January 25, 2010 at: http://www.bluegrass-nl.ca/Rex%20Yetman.html (Rex Yetman tribute page of the Bluegrass & Old-Time Country Music Society of Newfoundland and Labrador).
"Josh Graves" Posted on May 26, 2009 at: http://www.bluegrassmuseum.org/general/zbioJoshGraves.php
(IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame @ International Bluegrass Music Museum).
"Report on the 2004 IBMA World of Bluegrass." Posted at www.bluegrass-nl.ca on February 1, 2005.
"Bluegrass in Newfoundland." The Broadside 8.II (July 2004): 12. Also posted at www.bluegrass-nl.ca.
"A Bluegrass Concert on ECMA Weekend in St. John's." Maritime Bluegrass Magazine 4 (Spring 2004): 11-12, 25-26. Also posted at www.bluegrass-nl.ca.
"The True Bill." True Life News 2nd Edition (Spring 2001): 21-23.
"Grisman & McCoury's Bluegrass Mandolin History. Bluegrass Unlimited 33.11 (May 1999): 36-40.
"Good Jamming." Beam 2 (Fall 1998): 5.
"An Overview of Newfoundland Music." The New England Folk Almanac 6.7 (Aug. 1-Sept. 31 1997): 7-8, 26.
"More Blue Grass Girls: Juanita & Bill." Women in Bluegrass 11 (Spring 1997): 2-3.
"'High Lonesome': From Style to Sound?" Bluegrass Unlimited 31.9 (Mar. 1997): 30-32. Typo correction in Murphy Henry, "General Store," Bluegrass Unlimited 31.10 (April 1997): 12.
"Remembering Bill Monroe." Bluegrass Now 6.6 (Nov./Dec. 1996): 52.
"A Bluegrass Memento." Bluegrass Legacy. (Newsletter of the International Bluegrass Music Museum) 2.3 (July-Sept. 1995): [2-3].
[Review essays as listed]. In Paul Kingsbury, ed., Country on Compact Disc by the Country Music Foundation. NY: Grove, 1993.
Pp. 15-16 (Boone Creek); 19 (Alison Brown); 38-42 (Country Gazette, Country Gentlemen, J.D. Crowe); 50-51 (The Dillards); 74 (Good Ol' Persons); 90 (Hot Rize); 96 (Jim & Jesse); 104-05 (The Kentucky Colonels); 107-08 (Alison Krauss); 112 (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver); 115-16 (Laurie Lewis); 126-27 (Del McCoury); 132-33 (Bill Monroe); 137-38 (Nashville Bluegrass Band); 150-51 (the Osborne Brothers); 173 (Reno & Smiley); 182-83 (Peter Rowan); 195-96 (Larry Sparks); 245 (Various Artists--Bluegrass).
"Carroll Best: Pioneer 3-Finger Fiddle-Style Picker." Banjo Newsletter 19.4 (Feb. 1992): 5-7. With Tony Trischka.
"Bluegrass Scholarship--A Survey." Bluegrass Unlimited 26.3 (Sept. 1991): 39, 40.
[Introduction], [Festival Program], 20th Annual Nova Scotia Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Festival, July 26-28, 1991. [P.1].
"Classic Albums--Historic Recordings Re-reviewed: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall." The Journal [of the American Academy for the Preservation of Old-Time Country Music] 1.2 (April 1991): 15.
"Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass." The Journal [of the American Academy for the Preservation of Old-Time Country Music] 1.1 ([Jan] 1991): 22-23.
"Down Home and Upscale: The Evolution of Bluegrass Music" [edited interview]. Now and Then 8.2 (Summer 1990): 24-27.
"Industrial Strength Bluegrass" In [Dave Barbour, ed.] The Dayton Bluegrass Reunion [Concert Program, April 22, 1989]. Dayton: Cityfolk, 1989. 3-6. http://nativeground.com/industrial-strength-bluegrass-neil-v-rosenberg/. Revised version, "Foreword" in Industrial Strength Bluegrass (Urbana: U of IL Pr, 2021), cited above.
"Neil Rosenberg at East Tennessee State University" [edited interview]. Bluegrass Unlimited 22.4 (Oct. 1987): 63-70.
"Scholars Examine Bluegrass Music." International Bluegrass 2.1 (Jan.-Feb. 1987): 5.
"No Misanthrope, He." Banjo Newsletter 10.3 (1983): 7-8.
"A Front Porch Visit with Birch Monroe." Bluegrass Unlimited 17.3 (1982): 58-63.
"Pigeon Inlet Productions: An Interview with Kelly Russell." The Livyere 2.1 (1982): 30-3, 56.
"Notes from Newfoundland." Canadian Bluegrass Review 1.3 (1979): 22.
"Bluegrass in Newfoundland?" Canadian Bluegrass Review 1.1 (1978): 19.
"Allen Shelton." Banjo Newsletter 4.5 (1977): 6-13; 4.6 (1977): 17. With Scott Hambly.
"Bluegrass Back East." Breakdown 1.1 (1977): 17-18.
"Our Culture: Our Musical Heritage" [edited interview]. Decks Awash 5.3 (1976): 31-2.
"The Hardwoodlands Festival." TABC [Toronto Area Bluegrass Committee] News Apr. 1975: 1-2.
"Into Bluegrass: The History of a Word." Muleskinner News 5.8 (1974): 7-9, 31-3.
Reprint: In Thomas Goldsmith, ed. The Bluegrass Reader. Urbana: U of IL Pr, 2004. Pp. 93-101.
"The Osborne Brothers, Part Two: Getting It Off." Bluegrass Unlimited 6:8 (1972): 5-8.
Reprint: In Thomas Goldsmith, ed. The Bluegrass Reader. Urbana: U of IL Pr, 2004. Pp. 66-72.
"The Osborne Brothers, Part One: Family and Apprenticeship." Bluegrass Unlimited 6.3 (1971): 5-10.
"A Brief Survey of Bluegrass Haberdashery." Bluegrass Unlimited 2.9 (1968): 6.
"The Hurricane that Almost Hit Tampa." Bluegrass Unlimited 2.8 (1968): 9-10.
"Bluegrass and Serendipity." Bluegrass Unlimited 2.5 (1967): 2-3.
"Nine Reasons for Getting Acquainted with a Japanese Bluegrass Fan." Bluegrass Unlimited 2.4 (1967): 5-7.
"Don Pierce: The Rise and Fall of Starday and the Perplexing Patriot Problem." Bluegrass Unlimited 1.11 (1967): 4-5.
"Rockbluerollgrass/Bluerockandrollgrass Recordings." Bluegrass Unlimited 1.10 (1967): 4-6.
Reprint: In Thomas Goldsmith, ed. The Bluegrass Reader. Urbana: U of IL Pr, 2004. Pp. 164-167.
"Reflections on Roanoke." Bluegrass Unlimited 1.7 (1967): 3-4.
"The Old-Timers." Brown County Almanack 3 (1966): 15.
"D.K.Wilgus at Illinois: A Lecture Review." IUFC Blue Yodel 4.2 (1965): 3-4.
"Brown County Jamboree, Part II." IUFC Blue Yodel 3.2 (1964): 2
"Brown County Jamboree." IUFC Blue Yodel 3.1 (1964): 3.
"Concert Preview: Charlie Waller, John Duffey and the Country Gentlemen." IUFC Newsletter 1.7 (April 1963): n.p. [3].
"Bluegrass: A Selective Discography." IUFC [Indiana University Folksong Club] Newsletter 1.5 ([March] 1963): n.p. [3-4].
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"Bluegrass & Old-Time Country Jamboree." Klondyke Gazette [Bay Roberts, Newfoundland] June 2009: 4.
"Art as Entertainment (And Vice-Versa)." The Spectator 7 Nov. 1966: 13 (review of Bill Monroe concert).
"Music--Grand Ole Opry Style." The Spectator [Bloomington, Indiana] 28 Feb. 1966: 10-11 (review of Stanley Brothers Concert).
"Weekend Folk Festival." Oberlin [College] Review 12 May 1961: 2, 4.
REVIEWS
Music and Social Movements by Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison. Anthropologica XLII.1 (2000): 113-14. (book)
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell. Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1998): 167-171. (book)
Never Without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin by Katherine D. Newman. Newsletter of the Institute for Studies in American Music 25.2 (Spring 1996): 11. (book)
Songs of Labrador ed. and comp. Tim Borlase. Canadian Folklore canadien 17.1 (1995): 223-23. (book).
The Songs of Wade Hemsworth ed. Hugh Verrier. Canadian Book Review Annual 1990. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre. (book)
La Fleur du Rosier--Acadian Folksongs by Helen Creighton and Ronald Labelle. Canadian Book Review Annual 1989. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1990. 111-12 (book).
Folksongs of New Brunswick by Edward D. Ives. Canadian Book Review Annual 1989. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1990. 111 (book).
When You're up to Your Ass in Alligators...: More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. Humor 1-2 (1988): 187-189 (book).
Canadian Folklore by Edith Fowke. Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1988. 245. (book).
The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs by Edith Fowke. Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1988. 96. (book).
Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia by Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior. Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988. Ed. Joyce M. Wilson. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1988. 93. (book).
Work's Many Voices by Archie Green. Labour/Le Travail 22 (Fall 1988): 333-334 (records).
Everyday Culture: Popular Song and the Vernacular Milieu by Michael Pickering and Tony Green. Folk Music Journal 5.4 (1988): 490-93 (book).
Till Doomsday in the Afternoon by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. International Journal of Oral History 8 (1987): 142-44 (book).
Come and I Will Sing You ed. Genevieve Lehr. Journal of American Folklore 100 (1987): 95 (book).
Canadian Fiddlers by Bill Guest. Canadian Book Review Annual, 1985. Ed. Dean & Ann Tudor. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1986. 102. (book).
Idaho Folklife: Homesteads to Headstones edited by Louie W. Attebery. The Western Historical Quarterly 17 (1986): 229 (book).
Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia by Ivan M. Tribe. The Journal of Southern History 51.4 (Nov. 1985): 647-48 (book).
Folk Music and Modern Sound edited by William Ferris and Mary Hart. Journal of American Folklore 97 (1984): 365-6 (book).
Rufus Guinchard: The Man and His Music by Kelly Russell. Newfoundland Quarterly 79.4 (1984): 45 (book).
The Tape-Recorded Interview by Edward D. Ives and People Studying People by Robert A. Georges and Michael O. Jones. Western Folklore 41 (1982): 73-6 (books).
Maritime Folk Songs by Helen Creighton. Newfoundland Quarterly 78.1 (1981): 54-5 (book).
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years by Eric von Schmidt and Jim Rooney. Ethnomusicology 24 (1980): 582-4 (book).
John Mitchel Hickman by Carl Fleischhauer. Journal of American Folklore 93 (1980): 505-6 (film).
The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin, revised edition with a supplement by Roger deV. Renwick. Ethnomusicology 24 (1980): 109-14 (book).
Ted Ashlaw--Adirondack Woods Singer. Canadian Folklore Canadien 1 (1979): 93-4 (record).
American Folklife edited by Don Yoder. Florida Historical Quarterly Oct. 1977: 229-30 (book).
Bluegrass Music by Toru Mitsui (second, revised, edition). JEMF Quarterly 12 (1976): 46-7 (book).
Old As The Hills by Steven D. Price. JEMF Quarterly 9 (1975): 161-2 (book).
Annual Index to Popular Music Record Reviews, 1972 by Andrew D. Armitage and Dean Tudor. Ethnomusicology 18 (1974): 451-2 (book).
Uncle Wade: A Memorial to Wade Ward, Oldtime Banjo Picker 1892-1971. Folklore Forum 6 (1973): 262-3 (record).
Bottle Hill: A Rumor in Their Own Time. Folklore Forum 6 (1973): 186-8 (record).
Folksongs and Their Makers ed. Ray B. Browne. Journal of American Folklore 86 (1973): 69-71 (book).
American Folklore and the Historian by Richard M. Dorson. Western Historical Quarterly 3 (1972): 210-11 (book).
Songs from the Out-Ports of Newfoundland. Ethnomusicology 15 (1971): 321-22 (record).
Nobody: The Story of Bert Williams by Ann Charters, Recording the Blues by Robert M. W. Dixon and John Godrich, and Blacks, Whites and Blues by Tony Russell. Western Folklore 30 (1971): 147-9 (books).
Bluegrass from the Blue Ridge: Country Band Music of Virginia. Ethnomusicology 14 (1970): 196-98 (record).
Bluegrass Music by Toru Mitsui. JEMF Quarterly 5 (1969): 31-3 (book).
Billy Cox: The Dixie Songbird, Clark Kessinger: Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Curly Herdman: Old Time Country Music, Grant Rogers: Ballad Singer, Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle and Bagpipes. Ethnomusicology 13 (1969): 199-202 (records).
Travelin' Man: Billy Faier, The Virtuoso 5-String Banjo Played by Barry Hall. Ethnomusicology 9 (1965): 214 (records).
REGULAR SECTIONS IN PERIODICALS
"Canadian Bluegrass" (titled "Neil Rosenberg") in Bluegrass Gazette.com ("Canada's National Bluegrass Music Magazine") http://www.bluegrassgazette.com/, June, July 2010.
"Thirty Years Ago This Month." Monthly in Bluegrass Unlimited from 15. 2 (August 1980) to 29.2 (August 1994).
"Current . . . Discography." Three issues yearly in Ethnomusicology from 12 (1968) to 18 (1974).
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of Folklore Studies 10 (1972): #26-7, 259-60, 272.
9 (1971): #245-50, 267.
8 (1970): #230-7, 452-4, 655-9.
7 (1969): #207-10, 417-22.
5 (1967): Bibliographical Note # 116.
4 (1966): #782-84.
MANUSCRIPTS
Work files for many of these publications are on deposit at the Archives and Special Collections division of Memorial University's Queen Elizabeth II Library.
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