The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar

Contents

• Part I . New Guitar Histories and World Traditions:
• 1. Picking through cultures: a guitarist's music history Victor Anand Coelho;
• 2. Flamenco guitar: history, style, status Peter Manuel;
• 3. The Celtic guitar: crossing cultural boundaries in the twentieth century Chris Smith;
• 4. African reinventions of the guitar Banning Eyre;
• Part II . Roots and Rock:
• 5. The guitar in jazz Graeme Boone;
• 6. A century of blues guitar Jas Obrecht;
• 7. Rock guitar from the 1950s to the 1970s: the turn to noise Steve Waksman;
• 8. Rock guitar since 1980: contesting virtuosity Steve Waksman;
• 9. The guitar in country music Gordon Ross;
• Part III . Baroque and Classical Guitar Today:
• 10. Radical innovations, social revolution, and the Baroque guitar Craig Russell;
• 11. The revival of the classical guitar in the twentieth century David Tanenbaum;
• 12. Stradivari and Baroque guitar construction Stewart Pollens; Select bibliography; Glossary.