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Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Robert L., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
African American church musicians.
African American guitarists.
Hawaiian guitar music > History and criticism.
Church music > African American churches.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.