THE GUITAR AND THE NEW WORLD

In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After u ncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian great uncle, Gioia s investigation stretches from the ancient world to the fateful events of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition, across Sioux Ghost Dancers and circus Indians, to the lives and works of such celebrated American musicians as Jimmy Rodgers, Charlie Patton, Eddie Lang, and the Carter Family. At the heart of the book s p...[Read more]