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The guitar in America : Victorian era to jazz age / Jeffrey J. Noonan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Noonan, Jeffrey.
Series:
American made music series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Guitar--United States--History.
Guitar.
Guitarists--United States.
Guitarists.
Guitar music.
History.
United States.
Guitar music--United States--History and criticism.
Genre:
Guitar music.
Physical Description:
viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]
Summary:
From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America's progressive era
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222), discography (pages 223-225), and index.
ISBN:
9781934110188
1934110183
OCLC:
145378050

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