Empirical Explorations of Guitar Players Attitudes Towards Their Equipment and the Role of Distortion in Rock Music

Musical instruments are closely connected with genres and subgenres (Théberge 1997, 198), and some equipment is better suited for a particular genre than other gear (Jones 1992, 83). [...]musicians have modified instruments to their needs, as for example Edward Van Halen who famously altered his Mar...

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Published in:Current musicology no. 105; pp. 75 - 106
Main Author: Herbst, Jan-Peter
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University, Department of Music 22.09.2019
Subjects:
Analysis
Electric instruments
Genre
Guitarists
Guitars
Heavy metal music
Jazz
Music
Musical instruments
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Paul, Les
Popular music
Professionals
Rock music
Sound
Trademarks
United Kingdom
Germany
ISSN:0011-3735, 2640-883X
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Summary:Musical instruments are closely connected with genres and subgenres (Théberge 1997, 198), and some equipment is better suited for a particular genre than other gear (Jones 1992, 83). [...]musicians have modified instruments to their needs, as for example Edward Van Halen who famously altered his Marshall amplifier for higher distortion levels (Walser 1993, 43-44) and who built his 'Frankenstrat' in an attempt to combine the sounds and playing feels of two seminal guitar models, Gibson's Les Paul and Fender's Stratocaster (Obrecht 1978). [...]instruments and their individual sounds are of central importance for studying musical, cultural, and sociological aspects of rock music (Waksman 2003a). [...]the focus shifted from musicians to producers (Zak 2001; Moorefield 2010). Besides technological and production-related issues, popular music research has studied the electric guitar with regards to cultural identity and ethnicity (Waksman 1999), communication (Gracyk 1996), gender (Frith and McRobbie 1990; Walser 1993; Waksman 1999; Bourdage 2010), and fetishism (Uimonen 2016). [...]renowned players from other countries were also contacted.
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ISSN:0011-3735
2640-883X