The guitar in America [[electronic resource] ] : Victorian era to jazz age / / Jeffrey J. Noonan
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| Autore: |
Noonan Jeffrey
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| Titolo: |
The guitar in America [[electronic resource] ] : Victorian era to jazz age / / Jeffrey J. Noonan
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008 |
| 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.: | 9910782841103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American made music series.