inside an African American steel guitar tradition /
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert L. Stone
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Urbana :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Illinois Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Music in American life
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references, discography and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Discovery -- The churches : beliefs, social milieu, and the development of the steel guitar -- Traditions -- Church meetings and the steel guitarist's role in them -- The steel guitar -- The Eason Brothers -- Little Willie and his talking guitar -- Henry Nelson : the liberace of sacred steel -- The Jewell Dominion -- Motor city steel -- Calvin Cooke -- Shaping the modern sound : pedal-steel guitar innovators Chuck Campbell and Glenn Lee -- Negotiating the new millennium