How I Got into This: Toward a Social History of the Guitar in America

Authors

Peter Danner

Abstract

An introduction to a series of five articles by Peter Danner on the history of the guitar in the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Written between 1977 and 1994, these articles first appeared in early issues of the GFA’s magazine Soundboard. They are reprinted here in tribute to Danner’s pioneering contribution to guitar research and to bring them to the attention of a new generation of scholars. The author has generously provided this newly written introduction to the series.

Notes

Here are links to each article in the series:

1. Notes on Some Early-American Guitar Concerts [1977]
2. A Noteworthy Early-American Guitar Treatise: James Ballard’s Elements of 1838 [1981]
3. The Guitar in Nineteenth-Century America: A Lost Social Tradition [1985]
4. The Guitar in America as Mirrored in Cadenza (1894–1924) [1991]
5. Return with Us Now: Featured Facsimiles [a compilation of facsimiles and introductions printed in Soundboard between 1978 and 1994]

Recommended Citation

Danner, Peter. 2021. "How I Got into This: Toward a Social History of the Guitar in America." Soundboard Scholar 7, (1). https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol7/iss1/7