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BL
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989960
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b744330
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Noonan, Jeffrey
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| Title & Author
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The guitar in America : : Victorian era to jazz age /\ Jeffrey J. Noonan.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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American made music series
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1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1282485547
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: 1604733020
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: 9781282485549
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: 9781604733020
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1934110183
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9781934110188
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222), discography (p. 223-225) , and index.
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| Contents
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The guitar in America to 1880 -- Interlude : the BMG movement--the sources -- The guitar in the BMG movement 1880-1900 -- Interlude : a new generation of guitarists -- Transitions : from the parlor to the concert hall -- Interlude : the guitar as icon -- A new instrument -- Interlude : the wizard and the grand lady -- The old world reclaims its instrument -- Summary and conclusions.
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| Abstract
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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 com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments 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 in.
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Guitar music-- United States-- History and criticism.
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Guitar-- United States-- History.
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Guitarists-- United States.
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Guitar music.
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Guitar.
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Guitarists.
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MUSIC-- Musical Instruments-- Guitar.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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787.870973
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ML1015.G9N66 2008eb
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