TY - BOOK AU - Waugh-Quasebarth,Jasper TI - Finding the singing spruce: musical instrument makers and Appalachia's mountain forests T2 - Sounding Appalachia SN - 1959000012 AV - ML3917.U6 U1 - 784.19754 23/eng/20230412 PY - 2023/// CY - Morgantown PB - West Virginia University Press KW - Tonewoods KW - Forest products KW - Environmental aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Musical instruments KW - Construction KW - West Virginia KW - Musical instrument makers KW - Social aspects KW - Produits forestiers KW - Aspect de l'environnement KW - Aspect �economique KW - Instruments de musique KW - Facture KW - Virginie-Occidentale KW - Facteurs d'instruments de musique KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; West Virginia's Musical Instrument Makers -- Craft at Home in the Mountain Forest -- A Red Spruce Guitar -- Bringing Cremona Violins to Lobelia -- Tonewood from the Old World and the New -- Conclusion : Succession in Craft and Forest N2 - "Using historical narratives and sensory ethnography, among other approaches, Waugh-Quasebarth explores the complexities and contradictions of instrument-making labor, which is deeply rooted in mountain forests and expressive traditions but also engaged with global processes of production and consumption"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3677776 ER -