Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring

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Research Article| December 01 2018 Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring David Vanderhamm David Vanderhamm David VanderHamm is a Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Denver. He earned his PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation, “The Social Construction of Virtuosity: Musical Labor and the Valuation of Skill in the Age of Electronic Media.” His research focuses on the meanings of musical labor across multiple genres of US music from the twentieth century to today and on the ongoing role of advertising and commodification in American musical life. David has presented widely at international, national, and regional conferences, including meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music. His other publications include “Preserving Heritage, Fostering Change: Accidental Archives in Country Music and Hip-Hop,” coauthored with Mark Katz (Public Historian 37, no. 4), and an entry for “Virtuosity/Virtuoso” in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2018) 36 (4): 507–526. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.4.0507 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Vanderhamm; Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring. American Music 1 January 2018; 36 (4): 507–526. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.4.0507 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.