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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions
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2010
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The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions tells the fascinating story of the effort to recover the instrument's lost history through fieldwork in the Southern mountains, finding of old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks.
After reviewing the instrument's distinctive musical features, Ralph Lee Smith presents the dulcimer's story chronologically, tracing its roots in a Renaissance German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America; and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The story continues into the 20th Century, through the final group of tradition-based Appalachian makers whose work flowed into the national scene of the Folk Revival.
This fully revised edition provides expanded information about the history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer before the Civil War and discusses traditions and types that are still being discovered and documented. Smith also adds his personal adventures in searching for the dulcimer's history. A new final chapter describes types and styles that do not fit conveniently into the mainstream development of the instrument. The book concludes with several appendixes, including measurements of representative dulcimers and listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-3378-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-7412-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
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Contents No access
Illustrations No access
Series Editor’s Foreword No access
Preface: A Note about the New Edition No access
Acknowledgments No access
Prologue: A Talk with Patrick Gainer in 1980 No access
Chapter 01. An American Heritage No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 02. Where Did the Dulcimer Come From? No access Pages 15 - 34
Chapter 03. Early Traces and Trails No access Pages 35 - 56
Chapter 04. Virginia Traditions No access Pages 57 - 72
Chapter 05. West Virginia and North Carolina Traditions No access Pages 73 - 92
Chapter 06. Dulcimers of Yesterday in the Cumberlands No access Pages 93 - 112
Chapter 07. Dulcimer Makers of the Folk Revival Transition No access Pages 113 - 130
Chapter 08. Some Interesting Types No access Pages 131 - 146
Appendix A. Library of Congress Dulcimer Recordings No access Pages 147 - 154
Appendix B. Measurements of Instruments No access Pages 155 - 162
Appendix C. The Ache Scheitholt: A Closer Look No access Pages 163 - 166
Appendix D. Winners of the Dulcimer Contest, Old Time Fiddler’s Convention, Galax, Virginia No access Pages 167 - 170
Appendix E. Newspaper Story on Nineveh Presnell and His Dulcimer No access Pages 171 - 172
Appendix F. Ordering Dulcimers from Old-Time Makers No access Pages 173 - 174
Annotated Bibliography No access Pages 175 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184
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