The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock `n` Roll 9781501141652

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Автор: Port Ian S.
Название: The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock `n` Roll
Издательство: Scribner Book Company
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Рок и поп-музыка

Музыкальные инструменты и инструментальные ансамбли

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ISBN: 1501141651
ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501141652
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 15.01.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 161 x 235 x 32
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitars amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.

In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock n roll--and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fenders tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an axe that would make Fenders Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul--whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought--to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar worlds most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo.

While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s--including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton--adopted one makers guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable.

In an excellent dual portrait (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars (The Atlantic). The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new (The Washington Post).

The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock `n` Roll, Port Ian S.