Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music’s emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities. Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that merges intimate immersion in the music with on-the-ground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician. Drawing on his own close personal and professional interactions, Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice. He also reflects on “Americanist” musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities. Bidgood sees these acts of construction as a response to the Czech Republic’s postsocialist environment but also to US cultural prominence within our global mediascape. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1157/thumbnail.jpg

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Graduation date: 1999

Field studies were conducted to evaluate the effect of crop rotation on annual bluegrass plant population dynamics, seed rain, and seed bank in 1996 and 1997 at two sites. Growth-chamber studies were conducted to determine the influence of the mother plant environment on annual bluegrass germination. The change in population, seed rain, seed in seed bank and germination behavior of annual bluegrass at Site 1 was different from those at Site 2. The highest population of annual bluegrass was observed in the meadowfoam-perennial ryegrass rotation and the lowest population was observed in the continuous perennial ryegrass and meadowfoam-spring wheat rotations at Site 1 in 1997, whereas continuous perennial ryegrass and winter wheat-perennial ryegrass rotations had the highest populations at Site 2 in 1997. Differences in the number of annual bluegrass seed in the seed bank occurred at both sites. The greatest reduction of annual bluegrass seed in the seed bank was observed over time in the meadowfoam-spring wheat rotation at both sites. At both sites, most of the seed was deposited on the surface to 0 to 2.5 cm soil depth and the number of seed decreased with soil depth. The mother plant environment and the date of seed maturity had an effect on annual bluegrass germination. At the seed collection date of 5/8/97, the annual bluegrass seed collected from the canopy of continuous perennial ryegrass and from the seedling perennial ryegrass following meadowfoam had the highest germination at 15/25 C at Site 1. Seed collected from continuous perennial ryegrass on 5/6/97 and 5/22/97 had the highest germination among all test temperatures regimes at Site 2. Seed collected from seedling perennial ryegrass following meadowfoam at the second collection date of 5/28/97 at Site 1 and 5/22/97 at Site 2 had the lowest germination at all temperature regimes except 5 C constant temperature. The 15/25 C was the best temperature regime for germination of annual bluegrass collected from any mother plant environment on any seed collection date at Site 1 and Site 2. / Graduation date: 1999

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 101 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-87).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 88 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-88).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 1964. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-90).

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No other place in the world has a romance with American bluegrass like the Czech Republic. Banjo Romantika introduces the musicians who play this unique bluegrass hybrid. Czechs first heard bluegrass during World War II when the Armed Forces Network broadcast American music for soldiers. The music represented freedom to dissatisfied Czechs living in a communist state. Czechs’ love for the music was solidified when Pete Seeger visited and performed in 1964. Inspired by classic American bluegrass sounds, an assortment of musicians from across the formerly communist Czech Republic have melded the past, the political and the present into a lively musical tradition entirely its own.

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