Instruments of desire
Subtitle: the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
By: Steve Waksman.
Publisher: Havard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Electric guitar -- History; Popular music -- Social aspects; Gender identity in music; Sex in music; Music and race; Guitarists
Description: "Instruments of Desire is the first full account of the historical and cultural significance of the electric guitar, a wide-ranging exploration of how and why the instrument has had such broad musical and cultural impact."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Playing with sound : Charlie Christian, the electric guitar, and the Swing Era; title: Pure tones and solid bodies : Les Paul's new sound; title: Mister Guitar : Chet Atkins and the Nashville sound; title: Racial distortions : Muddy Waters, Chuch Berry, and the electric guitar in Black popular music; title: Black sound, black body : Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness; title: Kick out the jams : the MC5 and the politics of noise; title: Heavy music : cock rock, colonialism, and Led Zeppelin.