Kevin Casper of LoveToKnow has posted an interview with me in the guitar section there:
Just when you thought you had heard everything the guitar had to say, a modern swashbuckler uncovers a plan for reviving historical guitar music. Los Angeles-based guitarist and folk music historian Lucas Gonze uses the internet to travel back in time to the pre-recording era of American popular music. Gonze visits the dusty corners of virtual libraries to rediscover the compositions of the19th century on a mission to both subvert stifling internet copyright laws and to bring life to forgotten musical artifacts that have been silenced for over 100 years. LTK Guitar sat down with Gonze to discuss the origins of his unique project and to learn how he adeptly brings this compelling music to life on the guitar.
This came about because he saw me play a gig and thought it would make a good article for guitar players.
Link: http://guitar.lovetoknow.com/Reviving_Historical_Guitar_Music. (PDF).
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This is really nice Lucas. I have added your blog to my page “web sites of interest to musicologists.” I hope you connect with the AMS or the Society for American Music– go to a conference, publish an article in a journal about what you have discovered. You’re doing great stuff!
Bob Judd, American Musicological Society, http://www.ams-net.org
Thanks for stopping in, Bob. I appreciate the link on ams-net.org and the pointer towards american-music.org. I’ve been hoping to connect with musicologists, though I think that what I have to contribute is not writing but a sense of these sources as living culture.
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