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Guitar Cultures (Hardcover)
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Guitar Cultures (Hardcover)
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The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world.
It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and
flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making
in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural
popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding
social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy,
soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people
together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is
often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political
negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars
and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical
and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place
and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar
provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural
territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial
music industry, educational music programmes, and local community
atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance,
collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social
exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing
the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists
and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this
seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well
as music.
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