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Acoustic, Electric and Virtual Noise: The Cultural Identity of the Guitar

Author(s) -

Gavin Carfoot

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

leonardo music journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.119

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 1531-4812

pISSN - 0961-1215

DOI - 10.1162/lmj.2006.16.35

Subject(s) - guitar , musical , sociocultural evolution , identity (music) , noise (video) , acoustics , art , computer science , visual arts , sociology , aesthetics , anthropology , artificial intelligence , physics , image (mathematics)

Guitar technology underwent significant changes in the 20th century in the move from acoustic to electric instruments. In the first part of the 21st century, the guitar continues to develop through its interaction with digital technologies. Such changes in guitar technology are usually grounded in what we might call the "cultural identity" of the instrument: that is, the various ways that the guitar is used to enact, influence and challenge sociocultural and musical discourses. Often, these different uses of the guitar can be seen to reflect a conflict between the changing concepts of "noise" and "musical sound.

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