...Robert Palmer Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Robert Palmer The Church of the Sonic Guitar Accept that music is not sealed to passion, nor to piety, nor to feelings; accept that it can blossom in spaces so wide that your image cannot project itself within them, that it must...

...Mary A. Bufwack Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Mary A. Bufwack Girls with Guitars and Fringe and Sequins and Rhinestones, Silk, Lace, and Leather ^Rere is a story that circulates around Nash­ ville about a letter that was mailed from California with only a picture of a woman s...

... malt liquor and huffing sly through a def bullhorn: Partytime, mothers, dance to the death! The radio was blasting: he d tuned in to WLUV some wild guitar shit, wordless, per­ fect. Scorching the slick freeway, the crew got spooked by the drive-by shooting under the popped-out arc light chromed Uzi...

.... These books are The Omni-Americans (1970), South to a Very Old Place (1971), The Hero and the Blues (1973), Train Whistle Guitar (1974), and Stomping the Blues (1976). This creative rush within the span of seven years is the result of an extensive apprenticeship in Murray s subject matter. His career...

... of instrumentalists to the signa­ ture sounds of individual artists or recording centers. The subject of Morthland s review, the contemporary artist Junior Brown of Austin, Texas (inventor of and performer on the guit-steel, a combination steel and electric guitar), is contextualized as follows: Junior...

... and sings in a subdued voice a haunting melody which is some­ how familiar. Then you recognize it as the same music which you heard only this afternoon sung by the blind guitar-player under the Puerta de la Justicia, while a cluster of brown­ legged urchins danced to its measures in eager expectancy of your...

.... From Hank to Hendrix. Neil Young, Harvest Moon. Reprise 9 45057- 2. Selected Discography 363 The Ghost of Hank Williams. The Kentucky HeadHunters, Rave On!! Polygram 314-512568-2. Curb/MCA MCAD-10822. Girls with Guitars. Wynonna, Tell Me Why. MCAD Good-bye Time. Conway Twitty, Silver Anniversary...

... strides vigorously on stage with his acoustic guitar, shaking his thick mane of steel-gray hair and dressed in black jeans, black shirt, and a sparkling black, fitted jacket, the packed house rises Keeping Faith 137 to a standing ovation and Ketchum s younger fans, particularly the women, scream. He walks...

... University in Nashville. One of the last, wrap-up sessions on the program, the country music panel was so scheduled in tribute to the Nashville convention site, a kind of Grand Ole Opry finale. We gathered that Sunday morning in an austere classroom. No steel guitars, no Opry stars, no honky tonk bars...

..., was the most popular act on the Opry when Acuff joined in 1938? It was no string band or rustic ace fiddler, but rather a trio of college-educated harmony singers from Chicago: The Vagabonds (Figure 1). With only spare guitar accompaniment, they sang mostly well-known sentimental ballads, such as Red River...

... of a country western song.9 (The list of such works is extensive, indicating that folk music remained a lifelong interest.) Benton s family life involved music on many levels. His wife, Rita Piacenza, played the guitar and sang, while his children, T.P. and Jesse, played the flute and guitar, respectively...

... their house. His goal is that of the dreamer: I goin to lan us all in a sof place on dat Easy Street I heah sm singing bout so long wifout seein. Madison, with the help of a white ne er-do well, has taken his wife s savings to buy a stolen guitar. Fortunately, their landlord, who resolves the problem...

... a guitar (which tells you what kind of a singer he is), and he is clothed in winter coat, sheepskin lining and collar. Here: an innocent out of the West. A rustic, a bumpkin, possibly one of those good country people, who in their simple and unsophisticated way, ask the strong, fundamental questions, so...

..., and those who supported it as highschoolers remained faithful as collegians. By 1966 amplified protest music was everywhere tri­ umphant, and even traditional singers were turning in their acous­ tical guitars for electronic gear. However, as the psychedelic revolution went on, the message song was replaced...

... to be such an interest, in different aspects of it, opportunities to give speeches, and lectures CECELIA TICHI: That s right; 1 have heard by word of the grapevine that when you lecture, you don t you bring your guitar? I know you sing. BILL c. MALONE: Usually. I like to give lectures and illustrate them with songs...

... sun. At The South Atlantic Quarterly 94:1, Winter 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press. CCC 0038-2876/9550. 8 Christopher Metress the top of the slab you find the opening notes of 1 Saw the Light. Below this and to the left, a bronze plaque shows him smiling and playing his guitar...

..., Summer, pp. 449-633; No. 4, Fall, pp. 635-945 Nixon, Rob, Cry White Season: Apartheid, Liberalism, and the American Screen 499 Palmer, Robert, The Church of the Sonic Guitar 649 Patterson, Annabel, Introduction 1 Petroski, Henry, H. D. Thoreau, Engineer 39 Podoroga, Valery, The Eunuch of the Soul...

... as realistic as time travel. I couldn t tune a guitar (not necessarily a disadvantage in this circle). My singing was croak­ ing. My concept of songwriting was to jam showboat words and gags into an impossible musical structure with no sense of melody. There was no band, either, so we had to get one of those...

... is that students know and love the music learning details about the music is important, but secondary. Even then, I try to focus on what they hear and on what made the artist unique, and tend to shy away from pointless guitar solo transcriptions or overly technical dis­ cussions of chord progressions, rock lyrics...

... in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins 987 Boym, Svetlana, Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin s Fairy Tale to Molotov's Lacquer Box 821 Bufwack, Mary A., Girls with Guitars and Fringe and Sequins and Rhinestones, Silk, Lace, and Leather 173 Calion, Michel, Agency and the Hybrid Collectif 481...