Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / Steve Waksman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Havard University Press, 1999.Description: x, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 067400065X (cl. : alk. paper)
- ML1015.G9 W24 1999
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Includes Discography (p. [320]-323), bibliographical references (p. [324]-367) and index.
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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