Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222), discography (p. 223-225) , and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The guitar in America to 1880 -- Interlude : the BMG movement--the sources -- The guitar in the BMG movement 1880-1900 -- Interlude : a new generation of guitarists -- Transitions : from the parlor to the concert hall -- Interlude : the guitar as icon -- A new instrument -- Interlude : the wizard and the grand lady -- The old world reclaims its instrument -- Summary and conclusions.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 in.
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22573/ctt2kk497
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Title
Guitar in America.
International Standard Book Number
1934110183
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Guitar music-- United States-- History and criticism.