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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.
Subject
  • Electric guitar > History
  • Popular music > Social aspects
  • Gender identity in music
  • Sex in music
  • Music and race
  • Guitarists
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
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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
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