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Autore: |
Noonan Jeffrey
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Titolo: |
The guitar in America : Victorian era to jazz age / / Jeffrey J. Noonan
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Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina: | 787.870973 |
Soggetto topico: | Guitar - United States - History |
Guitarists - United States | |
Guitar music - United States - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222), discography (p. 223-225), and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 in |
Titolo autorizzato: | The guitar in America ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-48470-2 |
9786612484704 | |
1-60473-302-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825357003321 |
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