The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical PerformanceThe guitar is basic to most popular music cultures and travels widely as a part of local music cultures around the world. Here, Kevin Dawe argues that musicians from very different cultural backgrounds appear to be using the guitar in ways that seem to highlight the values of the cultures of their provenance. |
Contents
Ten Musical Lives of the Guitar | 1 |
Taking Stock of the Guitar Phenomenon | 19 |
The New Guitarscape and Musical Instrument Studies | 41 |
Notes on Guitarscaping | 63 |
Materiality and the Virtual Guitar | 87 |
The Sensual Culture of the Guitar | 109 |
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