The guitar in America :: Victorian era to jazz age /

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-ment...

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1. Verfasser: Noonan, Jeffrey (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:American made music series.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222), discography (p. 223-225) , and index.
ISBN:9781604733020
1604733020
1282485547
9781282485549

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