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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Activity Book
- Signed By
- Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman
- Signed
- Yes
- Book Series
- Banjo
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- ISBN
- 9780807824849
- Book Title
- America's Instrument : the Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Music, History
- Topic
- History & Criticism, United States / 19th Century, Musical Instruments / Strings, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
- Item Weight
- 4 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807824844
ISBN-13
9780807824849
eBay Product ID (ePID)
502990
Product Key Features
Book Title
America's Instrument : the Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, United States / 19th Century, Musical Instruments / Strings, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-046164
Reviews
Lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced. . . . Gura and Bollman's rich book makes it clear that the banjo is an essential constituent of what Greil Marcus once called 'that old, weird America.' -- Times Literary Supplement, Elegant and informative. . . . Gura and Bollman demonstrate more fully than any other writers on the banjo how completely industrial capitalism transformed the instrument itself. . . . Together they help us to better understand the values, goals, strategies, and final instrumental products of the leading nineteenth-century manufacturers of banjos. -- Reviews in American History, This is and will remain the definitive history of the production, advertisement, and distribution of the banjo in nineteenth-century America. . . . All friends of the banjo will want to own copies of this book, as will anyone interested in the history of the music business in the United States, organologists, and many historians of American culture. -- Music Library Association Notes, American's Instrument is now one of those 'must have' items for 'banjo people.' However, this is a very enjoyable book to look through for anyone, largely because so many incredible photos are of people, not just banjos, staring off the page at us from a century and a half ago. . . . Gura and Bollman have contributed an incredible document to the history of the banjo, and I for one deeply appreciate their effort. -- Béla Fleck, for Mississippi Quarterly, Like a Martin guitar, Philip Gura's book is a pleasure to hold and behold; the prose is accessible and engaging. The illustrations alone . . . reward casual browsing as well as close study. -- Business History Review, This splendid book . . . is a landmark publication. -- Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, A clear and extremely detailed account of the banjo in nineteenth-century America. . . . The reader is treated to a feast of illustrations. -- American Historical Review, America's Instrument is a fascinating, eye-opening read. . . . That this handsome book belongs in the library of every banjo enthusiast barely needs stating, but it is also a gem for anyone interested in folk music, in American studies, and in the development of American popular culture. -- Missouri Folklore Society Journal, A clear and extremely detailed account of the banjo in nineteenth-century America. American Historical Review, This magnificent . . . book traces the banjo from its origin among slaves attempting to replicate native West African instruments to its central place in American popular culture in the last half of the nineteenth century. -- Boston Globe, A clear and extremely detailed account of the banjo in nineteenth-century America.American Historical Review, America's Instrument reviews extant banjo history firmly, without antagonism. [The authors] prune from their own new research all but the banjo's technical progress. They watch the banjo change from an African gourd with a neck attached to a twentieth-century machine-made tool able to bounce its yawp off the back of the largest halls. . . . They have written an obsessive book for banjo fanatics, rich in living banjo culture. . . . America's Instrument lavishly details the banjo from the pegface to tailpiece hanger bolt. -- Journal of American History, America's Instrument lavishly details the banjo from the pegface to tailpiece hanger bolt. Journal of American History, [This book] makes it clear that the banjo is an essential constituent of what Greil Marcus once called 'that old, weird America.Times Literary Supplement, America's Instrument lavishly details the banjo from the pegface to tailpiece hanger bolt.Journal of American History, We are given not only the rich history of the banjo but also a remarkable study of the American marketplace.Southern Cultures, We are given not only the rich history of the banjo but also a remarkable study of the American marketplace. Southern Cultures, [This book] makes it clear that the banjo is an essential constituent of what Greil Marcus once called 'that old, weird America. Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
787.8/81973/09034
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Preface A Note on Early Photography Introduction 1. From the Plantation to the Stage: Bringing the Banjo to Market 2. An Expanding Market: The Dobson Brothers and the Rise of Banjo Culture 3. Selling the Banjo to All America: Philadelphia's S. S. Stewart 4. Manufacturing the Real Thing: Fairbanks, Cole, and the Golden Age of Boston Banjo Making Conclusion Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography IndexSelections of color illustrations follow pages.
Synopsis
This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America. Philip Gura and James Bollman chart the evolution of America's instrument, the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans brought to the New World in the seventeenth century through its rise to the very pinnacle of American popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Throughout, they look at how banjo craftsmen and manufacturers developed, built, and marketed their products to an American public immersed in the production and consumption of popular music. With over 250 illustrations -- including rare period photographs, minstrel broadsides, sheet music covers, and banjo tutors and tune books -- America's Instrument brings to life a fascinating aspect of American cultural history., An illustrated history of "America's instrument," the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans to the sophisticated musical machine so loved by Americans at the turn of the 20th century., This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America. Philip Gura and James Bollman chart the evolution of "America's instrument," the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans brought to the New World in the seventeenth century through its rise to the very pinnacle of American popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Throughout, they look at how banjo craftsmen and manufacturers developed, built, and marketed their products to an American public immersed in the production and consumption of popular music. With over 250 illustrations--including rare period photographs, minstrel broadsides, sheet music covers, and banjo tutors and tune books-- America's Instrument brings to life a fascinating aspect of American cultural history.
LC Classification Number
ML1015.B3G87 1999
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