Sacred steel
Subtitle: inside an African American steel guitar tradition
By: Robert L. Stone
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252035548; 9780252077432
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovery; title: The churches : beliefs, social milieu, and the development of the steel guitar; title: Traditions; title: Church meetings and the steel guitarist's role in them; title: The steel guitar; title: The Eason Brothers; title: Little Willie and his talking guitar; title: Henry Nelson : the liberace of sacred steel; title: The Jewell Dominion; title: Motor city steel; title: Calvin Cooke; title: Shaping the modern sound : pedal-steel guitar innovators Chuck Campbell and Glenn Lee; title: Negotiating the new millennium.