The History And Development Of The American Guitar
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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.
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 History Of The American Guitar
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Author : Tony Bacon
language : en
Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub
Release Date : 2001-09-01
The History Of The American Guitar written by Tony Bacon and has been published by Friedman/Fairfax Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-01 with Music categories.
The most widely played musical instrument in the world, the guitar is also the basis of American popular music. From the birth of a daring new musical style--the blues--to jazz, rock 'n' roll, and "techno rock," from Muddy Waters to Elvis to Eddie Van Halen, it has transcended the boundaries of mere instrument to become a true work of art and a cultural icon, its revolutionary transformations paralleling those of American society. Hundreds of close-up color photographs and expert text trace the development of the many types of guitar along with its musical and social legacy, since the early 1800s when C. F Martin first experimented with a radical new design--steel strings--through Gibson's hand-carved flat-tops, Fender's electric Stratocaster model, and today's high-tech marvels, including the 42-string Pikasso II. A fascinating excursion into guitar history, this is also an invaluable reference for the musician, collector, and music fan.
American Guitars
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Author : Thomas Hutchin Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: HarperResource
Release Date : 1992
American Guitars written by Thomas Hutchin Wheeler and has been published by HarperResource this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Guitar categories.
Share the adventures of Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, as he returns home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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'.
The Guitar And The New World
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Author : Joe Gioia
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-03-12
The Guitar And The New World written by Joe Gioia and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Music categories.
The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object—the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After uncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian great uncle, Gioia's investigation stretches from the ancient world to the fateful events of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition, across Sioux Ghost Dancers and circus Indians, to the lives and works of such celebrated American musicians as Jimmy Rodgers, Charlie Patton, Eddie Lang, and the Carter Family. At the heart of the book's portrait of wanderings and legacies is the proposition that America's idiomatic harmonic forms—mountain music and the blues—share a single root, and that the source of the sad and lonesome sounds central to both is neither Celtic nor African, but truly indigenous—Native American. The case is presented through a wide examination of cultural histories, academic works, and government documents, as well as a close appreciation of recordings made by key rural musicians, black and white, in the 1920s and '30s. The guitar in its many forms has cheered humanity through centuries of upheaval, and The Guitar and the New World offers a new account of this old friend, as well as a transformative look at a hidden chapter of American history.
Guitar History
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Author : John Bulli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Guitar History written by John Bulli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
The Rioplatense Guitar The Early Guitar And Its Context In Argentina And Uruguay
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Author : Richard T. Pinnell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Rioplatense Guitar The Early Guitar And Its Context In Argentina And Uruguay written by Richard T. Pinnell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Guitar categories.
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.
The Guitar In America
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Author : Jeffrey Noonan
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2008
The Guitar In America written by Jeffrey Noonan and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Electronic books categories.
The Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America\'s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America\'s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late nineteenth-century musical and com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments into America\'s elite musical establishments. Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement\'s heyday, tracing the guitar\'s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments. Chapters consider the BMG movement\'s impact on jazz and popular music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America\'s musicians. This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the BMG community within America\'s larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country\'s uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce. Jeffrey J. Noonan, associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, has performed professionally on classical guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, and theorbo for over twenty-five years. His articles have appeared in Soundboard and NYlon Review .