Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World

Richard Jones-Bamman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08284-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Richard Jones-Bamman is Emeritus Professor of Music at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
Zusatzinfo	33 black & white photographs, 5 line drawings
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-252-08284-2 / 0252082842
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08284-9 / 9780252082849
Zustand	Neuware