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Author:

Waksman, Steve.

Title:

Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / Steve Waksman.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

x, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Electric guitar--History.
Popular music--Social aspects.
Gender identity in music.
Sex in music.
Music and race.
Guitarists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-367), discography (p. [320]-323), and index.

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 (cl. : alk. paper)
067400065X (cl. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41932594
(OCoLC)42746005

LCCN:

99039764

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)