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Finding the singing spruce : musical instrument makers and Appalachia's mountain forests / Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sounding AppalachiaPublisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : IllustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1959000012
  • 9781959000013
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Finding the singing spruce.DDC classification:
  • 784.19754 23/eng/20230412
LOC classification:
  • ML3917.U6
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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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