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Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition

Title
Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition / Robert L. Stone.
Author
Stone, Robert L., 1944-
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

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Description
xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Music in American life
Uniform Title
Music in American life.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JNE 10-235
ISBN
  • 9780252035548 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252035542 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252077432 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252077431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010024455
OCLC
YBP 2010024455
Author
Stone, Robert L., 1944-
Title
Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition / Robert L. Stone.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
Series
Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Research Call Number
JNE 10-235
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