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Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience
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- Creator
- Steve Waksman
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
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- x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674000650, 067400065X
- OCLC
- ocm41932594
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-367), discography (pages [320]-323), and index.
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