Designed for students and others seeking an up-to-date introduction, this Companion explores electric guitar technology, culture, and music. It approaches the instrument from multiple angles ranging from manufacture to virtuoso performance, from worldwide popularity to online communities, enabling a richer understanding of its global influence.
The electric guitar is one of the most important musical instruments and cultural artifacts of the 20th and 21st centuries and enjoys popularity worldwide. Designed for students, this Companion explores electric guitar technology and performance, and the instrument's history and cultural impact. Chapters focused on the social significance of the electric guitar draw attention to the ways in which gender and race have shaped and been shaped by it, the ecology of electric guitar manufacturing, and the participation of electric guitarists in online communities. Contributions on electric guitar history stretch the chronology backwards in time and broaden our ideas of what belongs in that history, and those addressing musical style investigate the cultural value of virtuosity while providing material analysis of electric guitar technique. The Companion's final section considers the electric guitar's global circulation, particularly in Africa, the Afro-Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.
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A comprehensive introduction to the electric guitar's history and cultural impact, for students, guitar fans, and researchers.
Contributors;
1. Introduction Jan-Peter Herbst and Steve Waksman; Part
I. History:
2. The misunderstood history and prehistory of the electric
guitar Matthew W. Hill;
3. The electric guitar's 'Golden Age' Steve Waksman;
4. The guitar hero in classic rock John Covach; Part II. Technology and
Timbre:
5. They don't make 'Em Like They Used To: Electric Guitar Design
19502022 Matt Brounley;
6. Even in the quietest moments: amplifying the
electric guitar Kyle Devine;
7. Stompbox revolution: electric guitar pedals
and tone Erik Broess; Part III. Musical Style and Technique:
8. Technique vs.
Virtuosity in the instrumental gesture: from classical to rock and from rock
to contemporary creation Philippe Gonin;
9. The bass guitar in popular music
Brian F. Wright;
10. Thumping, glitch, and butterfly tapping: innovations in
guitar technique in the new millennium Alexander Paul Vallejo and Jan-Peter
Herbst;
11. Rhythm changes: rhythm guitar from jazz to funk Kate Lewis; Part
IV. The Electric Guitar in Society;
12. Trailblazers, self-creators, and
provers: celebrating women in electric guitar Sue Foley;
13. Black women:
race, gender, genre, and the electric guitar Mashadi Matabane;
14. Ecological
entanglements: following the electric guitar from factory to forest Chris
Gibson and Andrew Warren;
15. Electro-collectives: Virtual guitar communities
Daniel Lee; Part V. The Global Instrument:
16. African electrical networks
Nathaniel Braddock;
17. Rhythm, rasta, rock, & 'Electric Avenue': the
electric guitar in Anglo-Caribbean popular music Mike Alleyne;
18. The
electric guitar in Southeast Asia: a serpentine path Rebekah E. Moore; Index.
Jan-Peter Herbst is Reader (Associate Professor) in Music Production at the University of Huddersfield. His background as a rock guitarist has led him to specialize in the study of electric guitar playing and rock and metal music production. Herbst has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (2023). Steve Waksman is Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (1999), This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (2009), and Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé (2022).
