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Author Stone, Robert L., 1944-

Title Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition / Robert L. Stone
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, music
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254), discography and index
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Subject Church music -- African American churches.
Hawaiian guitar music -- History and criticism
African American guitarists.
African American church musicians.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Guitar.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Guitar & Fretted Instruments.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
African American church musicians
African American guitarists
Church music -- African American churches
Hawaiian guitar music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252090301
0252090306
1283028832
9781283028837
9786613028839
6613028835