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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Center for Folklore Studies will host a
celebration for the launch of Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth's new book, <i><u><a href="https://wvupressonline.com/finding-the-singing-spruce" id="OWA74f06bcf-e459-1ea6-6fa7-f3116f63b883" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Finding
the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests</a> </u></i> on Thursday, November 16 from 3 - 5 pm in 198 Hagerty Hall. Jasper will share a conversation with John Preston of Lewisburg, West Virginia, a violin maker and the
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How can the craft of musical instrument making help reconnect people to place and reenchant work in Appalachia?
How does the sonic search for musical tone change relationships with trees and forests? Following three craftspeople in the mountain forests of Appalachia through their processes of making instruments,
<i>Finding the Singing Spruce</i> considers the meanings of work, place, and creative expression in drawing music from wood.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Center for Folklore Studies will host a celebration for the launch of Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth's new book, Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests. Jasper will share a conversation
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