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
Harvard University Press, 2001
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index
"First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001"--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- 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
