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Alison H. Brown had more than just an academic interest in bluegrass music, having played the banjo seriously for a decade. The winner of a number of national banjo contests, including the Canadian National Five-String Banjo competition in 1978, she has made several records and played in the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. But she turned her hobby into an academic essay as well when she wrote her History and Literature thesis "Bluegrass Music as a Reflection of Changes in the Southern Appalachian Family...
...experience as a banjo player helped her when it came to researching bluegrass music. Little work had been done on the topic before, and Brown conducted a large series of field interviews with founders of the music form. "Some of them already knew who I was," she says. "They were pretty willing to open up. A lot of them feel like they haven't gotten the fame they deserve...
...Kentucky, the sight of a horse giving birth is nearly as common as bluegrass. But last week when a 26-year-old mare named Kelly rolled over to foal on the clean straw of her specially lit, rubber-padded stall at a farm outside Louisville, the two attending veterinarians monitored the birth with more than customary anticipation. Reason: the newborn animal that later staggered uncertainly to its feet was a zebra...
...present day, had been second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...
...most Kentuckians, the first week of spring has come to signal the agitated ecstasy of college basketball. For the past two years, cross-state rivals at the Universities of Kentucky and Louisville have met in the N.C.A.A. tournament to settle Bluegrass bragging rights. But roundball is not the only sport in town these days. Last Thursday, on the night of The Game, a smaller but no less demanding group of enthusiasts from all over the U.S. and a dozen foreign countries convened in Louisville to search for the future of the American theater. Now in its eighth year, the Humana...