Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World EPUB
by Jones-Bamman Richard Jones-Bamman
Part of the Folklore Studies in Multicultural World series
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Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads "asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:11/09/2017
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- ISBN:9780252099908
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:11/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252099908
