Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri

Marshall lays all this out in the introductory chapters and then proceeds to discuss the different cultural groups and their music in roughly chronological order. [...]the reader gains a sense of how the musicians interacted (or not) and how the styles developed (or languished) by adopting, absorbing, or eschewing new or foreign musical ideas. [...]in the chapter called 'Music and Memory in the Civil War Era' he tells the story behind the popular square dance tune 'Marmaduke's Hornpipe' which commemorates the loss of the small but important Battle of Boonville by John S. Marmaduke during the American Civil War.