Shaping Sound and Society

Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London. His previous books include Professional Music-Making in London,The Saxophone,Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context (co-edited with Julie Brown and Nicholas Cook), and Music, Dance, Anthropology.

Introduction: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments – An Overview

Stephen Cottrell

Instrumental Interlude #1: The Skoog–Ben Schögler and David Skulina

Part I: Ecology, Production and Communities of Practice

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

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

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

Eliot Bates

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

John Baily

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

Kevin Dawe

Instrumental Interlude #2: The Yaybahar–Görkem Şen

Instrumental Interlude #3: Eli Gras

Part II: The Circulation of Instruments

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

Stephen Cottrell

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

André J.P. Elias

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

Stewart Carter

Instrumental Interlude #4: The Fluid Piano–Geoffrey Smith

Instrumental Interlude #5: The Pikasso Guitar–Linda Manzer

Part III: Reframing History Through Instruments

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

Deirdre Morgan

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

Jenny Nex

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

Trevor Herbert