Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests (Sounding Appalachia) - Softcover

Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper

 
9781959000006: Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests (Sounding Appalachia)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1959000004 ISBN 13: 9781959000006
Verlag: West Virginia University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.

How can the craft of musical instrument making help reconnect people to place and reenchant work in Appalachia? How does the sonic search for musical tone change relationships with trees and forests? Following three craftspeople in the mountain forests of Appalachia through their processes of making instruments, Finding the Singing Spruce considers the meanings of work, place, and creative expression in drawing music from wood.

Jasper 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. Using historical narratives and sensory ethnography, among other approaches, he finds that the craft of lutherie speaks to the past, present, and future of the region’s work and nature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth teaches folklore studies at the Ohio State University.

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How can the craft of musical instrument making help reconnect people to place and reenchant work in Appalachia? How does the sonic search for musical tone change relationships with trees and forests? Following three craftspeople in the mountain forests of Appalachia through their processes of making instruments, Finding the Singing Spruce considers the meanings of work, place, and creative expression in drawing music from wood.

Jasper 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. Using historical narratives and sensory ethnography, among other approaches, he finds that the craft of lutherie speaks to the past, present, and future of the region’s work and nature.

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Verlag
West Virginia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1959000004
ISBN 13 
9781959000006
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
227
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