The violin : a social history of the world's most versatile instrument / David Schoenbaum.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: xxvi, 710 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393084405 (hardcover)
  • 039308440X (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 800 .S326 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.
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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.

The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.

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