This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, of

The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound—strings humming over skin—that has eased souls and electrifie

This unique reference book is a compendium of makers and manufacturers of every variety of musical instrument made in the United States today. It provides names

This book explores a little-studied arena that exists between science and technology, an arena in which a singular and important variety of open-ended, multi-pu

Meet the inventors and innovators who defined American music history. A radio repairman imagined inventing the electric guitar. The inventor of 3-D glasses envi