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Finding the Singing Spruce : Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests / Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.

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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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