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The Electric Guitar And Its Changing Role In Popular Music, Brendan Orchard

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

The electric guitar is a worldwide icon. It is widely renowned by cultures from every part of the world, and recognized by musicians and non-musicians alike. It is associated with popular music and can be heard on a countless number of famous songs. For the amount of fame and recognition the electric guitar has received, it has not been around for a significant amount of time, rather, just under a century. Upon its conception came bountiful new musical timbres, ideas, and inspirations. It has grown and adapted much through its lifetime, and continues to do so in order to stay …