- Illustrations
- Introduction: Going Electric
- 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
- Conclusion: Time Machine
- Adventures in Sound: A Guide to Listening
- Discography: Selected Recordings
- Notes
- Credits
- Index


Instruments of Desire
The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95
ISBN 9780674005471
Publication Date: 05/02/2001
Awards & Accolades
- Runner-Up, 1998 Woodie Guthrie Award, U.S. Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music