Dimensions
152 x 229 x 16mm
Americana, the music genre, is bigger than ever. The Grammy Awards recently added a Best Americana Album category, and this fall Nashville hosts the 10th Annual Americana Festival. But there are also parallels in almost every area of today's culture-of people drawing inspiration from the traditions and creations of an earlier era.
Reacting against the accelerating pace of modern life and too-much-information technology, young urban dwellers are carving out a new space, one brilliantly surveyed in FRONTIERLAND. Here we find barbers who instruct men to unplug the Norelco and try their (shaky) hand at shaving with a straight razor; manufacturers of high-end leather goods that outsource to the Amish rather than India; DJs who rely on wax cylinders instead of digital files; restaurants where wild boar appears on the bill of fare and the walls; and work wear that once saved the lives of turn-of-the-century Alaskan miners being reinterpreted to walk down the runways of Paris and Milan. This isn't mere nostalgia, but a conscious celebration of community and sustainability. FRONTIERLAND is the first comprehensive guide to the sounds, sights, tastes, and colorful characters that populate this new old-fashioned world.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
The rise and evolution of alt-country music
The classics of American roots music: Country, blues, gospel and folk
Great American work wear and heritage clothing & footwear
Prohibition and pre-Prohibition era cocktails & the speakeasy renaissance
Nose-to-tail butchering & raising backyard chickens
Straight razor shaving & old-fashioned barber shops
Burlesque & circuses
The resurgence of the vinyl LP
Canning, pickling and preserving
The D.I.Y. handmade crafts movement
