Bluegrass Ambassadors

Offers the first book-length study of the McLain Family Band, which has spread the gospel of bluegrass for more than fifty years. Interpreting the band's diverse repertoire as both a source of its popularity and a reason for its exclusion from the bluegrass pantheon, Paul Jenkins advances subtle arguments about genre, criticism, and audience.

Ambasadorii Bluegrass este primul studiu de lunga durata al cartii despre McLain Family Band, care a raspandit evanghelia bluegrass-ului de mai bine de cincizeci de ani. Inradacinata in bluegrass, dar colaborand si cu compozitori clasici si interpretand folk, jazz, gospel si chiar marsuri, formatia a calatorit in saizeci si doua de tari straine in anii 1970 sub auspiciile Departamentului de Stat.