"The Guitar in America" offers a history of the instrument from
America's late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative
traces America's BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a
late nineteenth-century musical and commercial movement dedicated
to introducing these instruments into America's elite musical
establishments.
Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost
unknown history of the guitar during the movement's heyday, tracing
the guitar's transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a
mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only
introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led
the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments.
Chapters consider the BMG movement's impact on jazz and popular
music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and
minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel
Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America's musicians.
This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America,
considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and
mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise
social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers
the BMG community within America's larger musical scene, examining
its efforts as manifestations of this country's uneasy coupling of
musical art and commerce.
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