03131nam 2200637 a 450 991078284110332120230721005318.01-282-48470-297866124847041-60473-302-0(CKB)1000000000721928(EBL)515633(OCoLC)317330401(SSID)ssj0000166585(PQKBManifestationID)11158964(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000166585(PQKBWorkID)10162523(PQKB)11667109(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206408(MiAaPQ)EBC515633(MdBmJHUP)muse13721(Au-PeEL)EBL515633(CaPaEBR)ebr10282586(CaONFJC)MIL248554(EXLCZ)99100000000072192820070518d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe guitar in America[electronic resource] Victorian era to jazz age /Jeffrey J. NoonanJackson University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (248 p.)American made music seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-934110-18-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222), discography (p. 223-225), and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Guitar in America to 1880; Chapter Two: Interlude: The BMG Movement-The Sources; Chapter Three: The Guitar in the BMG Movement 1880-1900; Chapter Four: Interlude: A New Generation of Guitarists; Chapter Five: Transitions: From the Parlor to the Concert Hall; Chapter Six: Interlude: The Guitar as Icon; Chapter Seven: A New Instrument; Chapter Eight: Interlude: The Wizard and The Grand Lady; Chapter Nine: The Old World Reclaims Its Instrument; Chapter Ten: Summary and Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; Discography; IndexThe Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America\'s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America\'s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late nineteenth-century musical and com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments into America\'s elite musical establishments. Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement\'s heyday, tracing the guitar\'s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only inAmerican made music series.GuitarUnited StatesHistoryGuitaristsUnited StatesGuitar musicUnited StatesHistory and criticismGuitarHistory.GuitaristsGuitar musicHistory and criticism.787.870973Noonan Jeffrey1540555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782841103321The guitar in America3792283UNINA