| Finding the Singing Spruce : Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth explores the complexities and contradictions of instrument-making labor, which is deeply rooted in mountain forests and expressive traditions but also engaged with global processes of production and consumption. Using historical narratives and sensory ethnography, among other approaches, he finds that the craft of lutherie speaks to the past, present, and future of the region's work and nature. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth teaches folklore studies at the Ohio State University. |