Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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| Title: | Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World |
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| Description: | Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making. |
| Authors: | Richard Jones-Bamman |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Banjo makers--United States, Banjo--Construction, Banjo music--United States--History and criticism, Old-time music--History and criticism |
| Categories: | MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making. |
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| ISBN: | 9780252041303 9780252082849 9780252099908 |
