The violin : a social history of the world's most versatile instrument / David Schoenbaum.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: xxvi, 710 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393084405 (hardcover)
- 787.209 23
- ML800 .S326 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making it. A star is born ; The golden age ; Over the hills and far away ; The road not taken ; Back to the future ; Last but not least -- Selling it . Paying the price ; The French connection ; The Ritz of violin shops ; From modern to postmodern ; "Fiddle, n. A swindle. orig. U.S." ; Violin cases -- Playing it. Learning how ; Players in general ; Players in particular ; Founding fathers ; How to get to Carnegie Hall ; Race, class, and gender ; Business and politics -- Imagining it. Still pictures worth a thousand words ; Poetry ; Prose ; Moving pictures worth a thousand words.