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Finding the Singing Spruce : Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests / Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper, 1990- author.
- Series:
- Sounding Appalachia.
- Sounding Appalachia Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest products.
- Musical instrument makers.
- Musical instruments.
- Tonewoods.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Using historical narratives and sensory ethnography, among other approaches, Waugh-Quasebarth explores the complexities and contradictions of instrument-making labor, which is deeply rooted in mountain forests and expressive traditions but also engaged with global processes of production and consumption"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- West Virginia's Musical Instrument Makers
- Craft at Home in the Mountain Forest
- A Red Spruce Guitar
- Bringing Cremona Violins to Lobelia
- Tonewood from the Old World and the New
- Conclusion : Succession in Craft and Forest.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper Finding the Singing Spruce
- ISBN:
- 9781959000013
- 1959000012
- OCLC:
- 1397570056
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