Finding the singing spruce : musical instrument makers and Appalachia's mountain forests / Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.
Material type: TextSeries: Sounding AppalachiaPublisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : IllustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1959000012
- 9781959000013
- Tonewoods
- Forest products -- Environmental aspects
- Forest products -- Economic aspects
- Musical instruments -- Construction -- West Virginia
- Musical instrument makers -- West Virginia
- Musical instruments -- Social aspects -- West Virginia
- Produits forestiers -- Aspect de l'environnement
- Produits forestiers -- Aspect �economique
- Instruments de musique -- Facture -- Virginie-Occidentale
- Facteurs d'instruments de musique -- Virginie-Occidentale
- Tonewoods
- Musical instruments -- Construction
- Musical instrument makers
- Forest products -- Environmental aspects
- Forest products -- Economic aspects
- West Virginia
- 784.19754 23/eng/20230412
- ML3917.U6
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE platform, viewed November 27, 2023).
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
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