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Inventing The American Guitar
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Author : Robert Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Guitar Reference
Release Date : 2013
Inventing The American Guitar written by Robert Shaw and has been published by Guitar Reference this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Music categories.
INVENTING THE AMERICAN GUITAR: THE PRE-CIVIL WAR INNOVATIONS OF C.F. MARTIN AND HIS CON
Inventing The American Guitar
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Author : James Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Inventing The American Guitar written by James Westbrook and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Music categories.
Inventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail. It tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. This transformation happened within a mere 20 years, a remarkably brief period. The person who dominates this history is C. F. Martin Sr., America's first major guitar maker and the founder of the Martin Guitar Company, which continues to produce outstanding flat-top guitars today. After emigrating from his native Saxony to New York in 1833, Martin quickly established a guitar making business, producing instruments modeled after those of his mentor, Johann Stauffer of Vienna. By the time he moved his family and business to rural Pennsylvania in 1839, Martin had absorbed and integrated the influence of Spanish guitars he had seen and heard in New York. In Pennsylvania, he evolved further, inventing a uniquely American guitar that was fully developed before the outbreak of the Civil War. Inventing the American Guitar traces Martin's evolution as a craftsman and entrepreneur and explores the influences and experiments that led to his creation of the American guitar that is recognized and played around the world today. To learn more about the history of the Martin guitar, click here to view the video and article from BBC, How Martin Guitars Became an 'American Stratavarius'.
History Of The American Guitar
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Author : Tony Bacon
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012-03-01
History Of The American Guitar written by Tony Bacon and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Music categories.
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN GUITAR
The Electric Guitar
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Author : André Millard
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-07-20
The Electric Guitar written by André Millard and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-20 with History categories.
"In The Electric Guitar, scholars working in American studies, business history, the history of technology, and musicology come together to explore the instrument's importance as an invention and its peculiar place in American culture. Documenting the critical and evolving relationship among inventors, craftsmen, musicians, businessmen, music writers, and fans, the contributors look at the guitar not just as an instrument but as a mass produced consumer good that changed the sound of popular music and the self-image of musicians."--BOOK JACKET.
C F Martin His Guitars 1796 1873
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Author : Philip F. Gura
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2003
C F Martin His Guitars 1796 1873 written by Philip F. Gura and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
The author chronicles the remarkable story of the world's most famous guitar company, using more than 175 illustrations to tell the story of C. F. Martin and the company he created, using letters, account books, inventories, and other documents. (Performing Arts)
The History Of The American Guitar
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Author : Tony Bacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The History Of The American Guitar written by Tony Bacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Guitar categories.
The History And Development Of The American Guitar
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Author : Ken Achard
language : en
Publisher: Bold Strummer Ltd
Release Date : 1996-08-01
The History And Development Of The American Guitar written by Ken Achard and has been published by Bold Strummer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-01 with Music categories.
The Birth Of Loud
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Author : Ian S. Port
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Birth Of Loud written by Ian S. Port and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Music categories.
“A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In “an excellent dual portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering “spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars” (The Atlantic). “The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new” (The Washington Post).
Segregating Sound
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Author : Karl Hagstrom Miller
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-11
Segregating Sound written by Karl Hagstrom Miller and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-11 with Music categories.
In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogs of “race” and “hillbilly” records produced by the phonograph industry. Such links among race, region, and music were new. Black and white artists alike had played not only blues, ballads, ragtime, and string band music, but also nationally popular sentimental ballads, minstrel songs, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and Broadway hits. In a cultural history filled with musicians, listeners, scholars, and business people, Miller describes how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a “musical color line,” a cultural parallel to the physical color line that came to define the Jim Crow South. Segregated sound emerged slowly through the interactions of southern and northern musicians, record companies that sought to penetrate new markets across the South and the globe, and academic folklorists who attempted to tap southern music for evidence about the history of human civilization. Contending that people’s musical worlds were defined less by who they were than by the music that they heard, Miller challenges assumptions about the relation of race, music, and the market.
Shout Sister Shout
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Author : Gayle Wald
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
Shout Sister Shout written by Gayle Wald and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in 1915, she was gospel's first superstar and the preeminent crossover figure of its "golden age" (1945-1965). Everyone who saw her perform said she could "make that guitar talk." Shout, Sister, Shout! is the first biography of this trailblazing performer who influenced scores of popular musicians, from Elvis Presley and Little Richard to Eric Clapton and Bonnie Raitt. An African American guitar virtuoso, Tharpe defied categorization. Blues singer, gospel singer, folk artist, and rock-and-roller, she "went electric" in the late 1930s, amazing northern and southern, U.S. and international, and white and black audiences with her charisma and skill. Ambitious and relentlessly public, Tharpe even staged her own wedding as a gospel concert-in a stadium holding 20,000 people! Wald's eye-opening biography, which draws on the memories of over 150 people who knew or worked with Tharpe, introduces us to this intriguing and forgotten musical heavyweight, forever altering our understanding of both women in rock and U.S. popular music.