The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History

by Joe Gioia

Book Overview

The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object--the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After uncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438446179
• ISBN13: 9781438446172
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"