The violin
Subtitle: a social history of the world's most versatile instrument
By: David Schoenbaum
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780393084405
Subjects: Violin; History
Description: The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The global instrument; title: Making it. A star is born ; The golden age ; Over the hills and far away ; The road not taken ; Back to the future ; Last but not least; title: Selling it . Paying the price ; The French connection ; The Ritz of violin shops ; From modern to postmodern ; "Fiddle, n. A swindle. orig. U.S." ; Violin cases; title: Playing it. Learning how ; Players in general ; Players in particular ; Founding fathers ; How to get to Carnegie Hall ; Race, class, and gender ; Business and politics; title: Imagining it. Still pictures worth a thousand words ; Poetry ; Prose ; Moving pictures worth a thousand words.