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Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
- Title
- Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / Steve Waksman.
- Author
- Waksman, Steve.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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- Description
- x, 373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes Discography (p. [320]-323), bibliographical references (p. [324]-367) and index.
- Contents
- Playing with sound : Charlie Christian, the electric guitar, and the Swing Era -- Pure tones and solid bodies : Les Paul's new sound -- Mister Guitar : Chet Atkins and the Nashville sound -- Racial distortions : Muddy Waters, Chuch Berry, and the electric guitar in Black popular music -- Black sound, black body : Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness -- Kick out the jams : the MC5 and the politics of noise -- Heavy music : cock rock, colonialism, and Led Zeppelin.
- Call Number
- JME 00-78
- ISBN
- 067400065X (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99039764
- OCLC
- vendor
- Author
- Waksman, Steve.
- Title
- Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / Steve Waksman.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes Discography (p. [320]-323), bibliographical references (p. [324]-367) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 00-78