Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252082849)

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.

Author: Richard Jones-Bamman
ISBN-10: 0252082842
ISBN-13: 9780252082849
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d