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By a set of veteran music freelance writers, an unprecedented background of the electric guitar, its explosive effect on music and culture, and the folks who brought it alive. For years the electric guitar has been an international symbol of independence, hazard, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the history of the iconic instrument to roaring life. It's a tale of inventors and iconoclasts, of scam artists, prodigies, and mythologizers as assorted and original as the tools they spawned. Play It Loud uses 12 landmark guitars - all of them imaginative milestones in their own right - to demonstrate the turmoil and love the tools have influenced. It introduces Leo Fender, a guy who couldn't play a note but whose improvements helped transform the guitar into the explosive sound machine it is today. Some of the most significant social motions of the 20th century are indebted to the guitar: It was an essential aspect in the fight for racial equality in the entertainment industry; a reflection to the climb of the teenager as social pressure; a linchpin of punk's sound and ethos. Now the guitar has come full circle, with modern day titans such as Jack port White in the White Stripes, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Dan Auerbach in the Black Keys providing some of the earliest electric guitar forms back again to the limelight. Presenting interviews with Les Paul, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Eddie Truck Halen, Steve Vai, and dozens more players and creators, Play It Loud is the storyplot of how a group of innovators transformed a concept into a trend.
