Guitar : an American life / Tim Brookes.
2005
ML1015.G9 B753 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Guitar : an American life / Tim Brookes.
Author
Edition
First Grove Press paperback edition.
ISBN
9780802142580 (pbk.)
0802142583 (pbk.)
0802142583 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Grove Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Description
339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
ML1015.G9 B753 2005
Summary
When baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookes's guitar, he discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought, and sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar. His quest takes him across the country, talking to historians, curators, and guitar makers, and he explores the guitar's mystique: freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality. In an extraordinary variety of hands--miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents' wives, Hawaiians, African-Americans, Cajuns, jazz players, spiritualists, singing cowboys of the silver screen, and Beatles fans--it has become America's instrument.--From publisher description.
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