Finding the singing spruce : musical instrument makers and Appalachia's mountain forests /

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 11 April, 2025 - 11:12

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper,

Source:

West Virginia University Press,, Morgantown, United States, p.xiii, 213 pages : (2023)

Call Number:

ML3917.U6

Keywords:

Aspect de l'environnement., Aspect économique., Construction, Economic aspects, Economic aspects., Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects., Facteurs d'instruments de musique, Facture, fast, Forest products, Instruments de musique, Musical instrument makers, Musical instruments, Produits forestiers, Social aspects, Tonewoods, Tonewoods., Virginie-Occidentale., West Virginia.

Notes:

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"--