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Cool Wooden Box
2023
Overview
“In
Cool Wooden Box , Rand Smith has cleverly woven person,
social, and musical histories into a compelling narrative. In
doing so, Smith has illustrated just how, well, cool the steel
string acoustic guitar, its makers, and its players are.”
—John Thomas, author of
Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women and
Gibson’s “Banner” Guitars of WWII , and
field editor for
The Fretboard Journal Beginning with a comparison of
the American acoustic guitar world in the early 1960s with that
of today, then describing iconic performances at storied venues
such as The Ark in Ann Arbor while meticulously researching the
instrument’s top makers, Smith assembles a passion-filled
and eye-opening history of that “cool wooden box”
from the folk era through the pandemic. The author focuses on
both the playing and making of the acoustic guitar, concluding
that the instrument has been transformed in both aspects during
the last sixty years. On the playing side, Smith examines the
influences on, and the impact of, such guitarists as David
Bromberg, Elizabeth Cotten, Paul Geremia, and Norman Blake. On
the making side, the author takes the reader into the
tradition-minded yet dynamic world of lutherie. He traces how
the oldest, most revered companies whose reputations are based
on legendary breakthroughs in lutherie, Gibson and Martin, have
adapted as the new lutherie movement of innovative small-scale
producers, exemplified by interviewees such as Michael Gurian,
Bill Collings, Richard Hoover, and Dana Bourgeois, arose.
Starting small and then growing exponentially, Taylor Guitars
is a wholly different “player” in acoustic guitar
building, and Smith compellingly tells its story. Finally,
Cool Wooden Box considers the effects of globalization
on the industry.
Clocking thousands of miles and hours of interviews with
guitar makers, suppliers, and sellers, W. Rand Smith has
created not only a detailed history of the acoustic guitar, but
also a lasting tribute to an instrument he so clearly
reveres.
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press,The University of Tennessee Press
Subject
ISBN
9781621907855, 1621907856, 9781621907879, 1621907872
