TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schoenbaum,David
TI  - The violin: a social history of the world's most versatile instrument 
SN  - 9780393084405 (hardcover)
AV  - ML800 .S326 2013
U1  - 787.209 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Violin
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Imagining it. Still pictures worth a thousand words ; Poetry ; Prose ; Moving pictures worth a thousand words
ER  -