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Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
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Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / Steve Waksman.
ISBN
067400065X (cl. : alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Havard University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. [320]-323), 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.
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