Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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Erschienen am 11. September 2017
288 Seiten
978-0-252-09990-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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 "e,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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Richard Jones-Bamman
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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09/2017
University of Illinois Press
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Richard Jones-Bamman
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
Buch
09/2017
University of Illinois Press
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Brief History of the Banjo
- 2 The Old-Time Nation
- 3 God Is in the Details
- 4 An Homage to the Past
- 5 An Apprentice to Ghosts
- 6 The Banjo's Evolving Story
- Appendix 1. List of Interviewees
- Appendix 2. Banjo Builder Websites
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
