America's Instrument
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Philip F. Gura
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, of
The Banjo
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-14 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound—strings humming over skin—that has eased souls and electrifie
Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Susan Caust Farrell
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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This unique reference book is a compendium of makers and manufacturers of every variety of musical instrument made in the United States today. It provides names
America's Instrument
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Philip F. Gura
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: American Musical Instrument Society
Categories: Musical instruments
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

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