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Title:

The electric guitar : a history of an American icon / edited by André Millard.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 226 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Electric guitar--History--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Millard, A. J.

Notes:

"For the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

The music: the electric guitar in the American century / Charles McGovern -- Inventing the electric guitar / André Millard -- Manufacturing: expansion, consolidation, and decline / James P. Kraft -- Solidbody: electric guitars / André Millard -- Recording: the search for the sound / Susan Schmidt-Horning -- Playing with power: technology, modernity and the electric guitar / André Millard -- The guitar hero / André Millard, after the collaborative paper with Rebecca McSwain -- Heavy metal: from guitar heroes to guitar gods / André Millard, after the collaborative paper with Rebecca McSwain -- Women guitarists: gender issues in alternative rock / John Strohm.

ISBN:

9780801878626 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801878624 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52720765

LCCN:

2003016415

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)