America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth CenturyUNC Press Books, 1999 - 303 páginas This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America. Philip Gura and Jame |
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America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century Philip F. Gura,James F. Bollman Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century Philip F. Gura,James F. Bollman Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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Página viii - When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming...