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What is Guitar : An American Life about?

From humble folk instrument to American icon, the story of the guitar is told in this “exceptionally well-written” memoir by the NPR commentator (Guitar Player). In this blend of personal memoir and cultural history, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes narrates the long and winding history of the guitar in the United States as he recounts his own quest to build the perfect instrument. Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes learns how a perfect piece of cherry wood is hued, dovetailed, and worked on with saws, rasps, and files. He also discovers how the guitar first arrived in America with the conquistadors before being taken up by an extraordinary variety of hands: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents'wives. In time, the guitar became America's vehicle of self-expression. Nearly every immigrant group has appropriated it to tell their story. “Part history, part love song, Guitar strikes just the right chords.” —Andrew Abrahams, People

Who reads Guitar : An American Life?

Author

Tim Brookes, Tim Brookes

Publisher

Grove Press : distributed by Random House; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394174594

Category

music

Subjects

Music, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (179 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14