Fischer THE MUSIC EDUCATOR

A Scholarly Biography with a Surprising Twist
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-6957-8148-5
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Deutsch, 56 Seiten

Ukulele method books on the North American mainland and at the same time one of the stil, underestimated boundary figures between music pedagogy, commerce, and technical development. His self-instruction manual, published in 1914 by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, is identified in the scholarship as one of the early mainland methods alongside Kealakai and Kia. The source-critical payoff of this study, however, lies in sharpening his professional profile: Bailey was not only a music educator, method author, and studio director, but also a patented technical inventor and instrument developer. Three U.S. patents can be documented, for the Violin friction-peg, the Musical-instrument mouthpiece, and the Hanger, identifying him as a developer of concrete hardware and playing aids. The present study reconstructs Baileys biography through source criticism, situates him within the marketing and teaching programs of Sherman, Clay & Co. , House of Hawaiian Hit, and links teaching pedagogy, commercial networks, copyright trails, and patents into a more precisely defined overall profile.

Andreas Fischer is a German author, acoustics expert, and, more broadly, a historian of the ukulele. His research focuses on instruments produced by the Lyon & Healy company, the development of the ukulele in the early twentieth century, and the rediscovery of instructional works by Nelson Burdette Bailey. On his website, bailey-ukulele.de, he publishes research findings, documentation, and primary source materials. He lives in the Rhineland, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and continues to work on additional books dealing with the cultural and musical history of the ukulele.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Andreas