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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions
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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions Paperback - 2010

by Smith, Ralph Lee

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  • Title Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions
  • Author Smith, Ralph Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-03-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18103494-6
  • ISBN 9780810874114 / 0810874113
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Appalachian dulcimer - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009049513
  • Dewey Decimal Code 787.74

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From the publisher

The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions tells the fascinating story of the effort to recover the instrument's lost history through fieldwork in the Southern mountains, finding of old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After reviewing the instrument's distinctive musical features, Ralph Lee Smith presents the dulcimer's story chronologically, tracing its roots in a Renaissance German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America; and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The story continues into the 20th Century, through the final group of tradition-based Appalachian makers whose work flowed into the national scene of the Folk Revival. This fully revised edition provides expanded information about the history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer before the Civil War and discusses traditions and types that are still being discovered and documented. Smith also adds his personal adventures in searching for the dulcimer's history. A new final chapter describes types and styles that do not fit conveniently into the mainstream development of the instrument. The book concludes with several appendixes, including measurements of representative dulcimers and listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.

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Citations

  • Choice, 11/01/2010, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2010, Page 247

About the author

Ralph Lee Smith is a leading authority on the history of the Appalachian dulcimer and is a performer and teacher of traditional American folk music. He is the author of Folk Songs of Old Virginia (2009) and Greenwich Village: The Happy Folk Singing Days, 1950s and 1960s (2008).

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