Instruments of Desire

The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience

Steve Waksman

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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674005471

Publication Date: 05/02/2001

* Academic Trade

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

23 halftones

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MUSIC: Musical Instruments: Guitar

Steve Waksman is the 1998 winner of the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize awarded by the American Studies Association. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green University, and is on the editorial board of Popular Music and Society.

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