Shaping Sound and Society : The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments (Paperback)

Introduction: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments ? An Overview

Instrumental Interlude #1: The Skoog?Ben Schogler and David Skulina

Part I: Ecology, Production and Communities of Practice

1. The Social Production of a Mallorcan Bagpipe: Collaboration, Technology, Ecology and Internationalisation

2. Feeling Analogue: Using Modular Synthesisers, Designing Synthesis Communities

3. Re-inventing the Herati Dutar: Some Cultural and Social Repercussions

4. Musical Instruments as Material Culture: A Case Study of the Cretan Lyra

Instrumental Interlude #2: The Yaybahar?Gorkem ?en

Instrumental Interlude #3: Eli Gras　

5. Charlie Parker, Massey Hall and Grafton 10265: Musical Instruments and the Telling of Tales

6. What’s in a Name?: Carving an Indian Identity into the Slide-Guitar

7. Playing for God: Brass Instruments of the Moravian Brethren in the Atlantic World

Instrumental Interlude #4: The Fluid Piano?Geoffrey Smith

Instrumental Interlude #5: The Pikasso Guitar?Linda Manzer　

8. Arcadian Tones: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Austrian Maultrommel

9. Musical Instruments as Traded Commodities: The Makers’ Perspective

10. Military Musical Instruments and the Culture of Perfection in the Long Nineteenth Century