The Guitar and the New World

The Guitar and the New WorldA transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history. 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

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