The new guitarscape in critical theory, cultural practice and musical performance
Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument. In order to understand the properties and potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society, the a...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Farnham [u.a.]
Ashgate
2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | Ashgate popular and folk music series
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| Zusammenfassung: | Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument. In order to understand the properties and potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society, the author draws from studies in science and technology, design theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and globalization.--[back cover] |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p [203]-217) and index Ten musical lives of the guitar -- Taking stock of the guitar phenomenon -- The new guitarscape and musical instrument studies -- Notes on guitarscaping -- Materiality and the virtual guitar -- The sensual culture of the guitar -- Gender and sexuality in the new guitarscape -- The power and agency of the guitar -- Guitars, travel and translation |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 227 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780754667759 |