Guitar Cultures

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The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. Its 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.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences worldwide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artifact resonates with meaning, as well as music.