The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music

by James Sallis

Book Overview

"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated rhythmic ingenuity.

Sallis shows how folk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803292252
• ISBN13: 9780803292253
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"