The guitar in America : Victorian era to jazz age /

Show other versions (2)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Noonan, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
Guitar > United States > History.
Guitarists > United States.
Guitar music > United States > History and criticism.
Guitare > États-Unis > Histoire.
Guitaristes > États-Unis.
Guitare, Musique de > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Guitar.
Guitar
Guitar music
Guitarists
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The guitar in America to 1880
  • Interlude : the BMG movement--the sources
  • The guitar in the BMG movement 1880-1900
  • Interlude : a new generation of guitarists
  • Transitions : from the parlor to the concert hall
  • Interlude : the guitar as icon
  • A new instrument
  • Interlude : the wizard and the grand lady
  • The old world reclaims its instrument
  • Summary and conclusions.

Similar Items