A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs,
tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has
enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century.
From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian
prairies and
America's Upper Midwest, scores of groups have wed
squeezeboxes with string bands, hoe downs with hambos, and sentimental
Southern balladry with comic "up north" broken-English comedy, to create
a new and uniquely American sound.
The Goose Island Ramblers
played as a house band for a local tavern in Madison, Wisconsin from the
early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The group epitomized the polkabilly
sound with their wild mixture of Norwegian fiddle tunes, Irish jigs,
Slovenian polkas, Swiss yodels, old time hillbilly songs,
"Scandihoovian"
and "Dutchman" dialect ditties, frost-bitten Hawaiian marches, and
novelty numbers on the electric toilet plunger. In this original study,
James P. Leary illustrates how the Ramblers' multiethnic music combined
both local and popular traditions, and how their eclectic repertoire
challenges
prevailing definitions of American folk music. He thus offers the first
comprehensive examination of the Upper Midwest's folk musical
traditions within the larger context of American life and culture.
Impeccably researched, richly detailed and illustrated, and accompanied
by a compact disc of interviews and performances, James P. Leary's Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music creates an unforgettable portrait of a polkabilly band and its world.
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