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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2008.
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| Colección: | American made music series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222), discography (p. 223-225) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733020 1604733020 1282485547 9781282485549 |