The Guitar in America Victorian Era to Jazz Age 1st Edition by Jeffrey Noonan 1934110183 9781934110188
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ISBN 10: 1934110183
ISBN 13: 9781934110188
Author: Jeffrey J. Noonan
The Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America’s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America’s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late-nineteenth-century musical and commercial movement dedicated to introducing these instruments into America’s elite musical establishments.
Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement’s heyday, tracing the guitar’s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments. Chapters consider the BMG movement’s impact on jazz and popular music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America’s musicians.
This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the BMG community within America’s larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country’s uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce.
The Guitar in America Victorian Era to Jazz Age 1st Table of contents:
Chapter One: The Guitar in America to 1880
Chapter Two: Interlude: The BMG Movement—The Sources
Chapter Three: The Guitar in the BMG Movement 1880—1900
Chapter Four: Interlude: A New Generation of Guitarists
Chapter Five: Transitions: From the Parlor to the Concert Hall
Chapter Six: Interlude: The Guitar as Icon
Chapter Seven: A New Instrument
Chapter Eight: Interlude: The Wizard and The Grand Lady
Chapter Nine: The Old World Reclaims Its Instrument
Chapter Ten: Summary and Conclusions
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