The Electric Guitar
Subtitle: A History of an American Icon
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801878626
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; String instruments; Musical Instruments - Guitar; History & Criticism - General; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General; History; Congresses; Electric guitar
First sentence: Beginning with its commercial introduction in the 1930s, the electric guitar developed into perhaps the most important instrument to shape American popular music in the decades to come.