Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
Title:
Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
Author:
Waksman, Steve.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
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, Chuck 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.
ISBN:
9780674000650
Format :
Book
