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A People's History of the Guitar is about people, guitars, people and their guitars, and guitars and their people. We'll be exploring histories, origins, innovation, triumphs, and tragedies, and talking to well-known, little known, and unknown people who make music with the guitar, and who make, and think about the instrument. A People's History of the Guitar starts with the idea that the guitar belongs to all of us, and it deserves a history for all of us. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy
Unknown Host hosts A People's History of the Guitar, a history show with 15 episodes published.
This episode is about Lutes. Not the Lute we know , but the Lutes we call Lutes that aren't the Lute we know, which came before the Lute we know, which is a Lute that led to the guitar...which is also a Lute. The episode
From The Lyres of Ur in episode 10, this episode takes us 1,000 years into the future, and 1,000 miles to the west of Mesopotamia, to ancient Egypt. Once we're there, we'll find a 3,500 year-old musical instrument, playe
In this episode we uncover the oldest existing examples of the kinds of string instruments that led to the guitar. They're called The Lyres of Ur , they're over 4,000 years old, and they were discovered in the 1930s by s
Episode nine about the word guitar. That's not bad grammar, its a question: what is the origin of the word, guitar? It's an odd word with deep roots, and the evolution of the word tracks with the evolution of the instrum
This episode goes off-road a little. I'm late to the party, but when I recently (finally) saw Ryan Coogler's Sinners , I couldn't not do an episode on this movie. Sinners is a cracking good vampire movie that also happen
This is the second in a short series of episodes and interviews about that thing we made, that if we hadn't made, there would be no guitar. Episode six is about how we learned to make a string and pull it tight between t
This is the first in a short series of episodes and interviews about how we turned cordage into chordage . According to the Hornbostel-Sachs System for Musical Instrument Classification, the guitar is in the Chordophone
Episode five is about one of the ways we organize human knowledge. It's also about two German musicologists who created a system for categorizing musical instruments, before the Nazis fucked it all up. And you bet it's r
This episode takes us from the evolution of human musicality into the realm of music itself, and its origins. That story is big, controversial, and messy. So, I've sorted it into easily digestible summaries of the ideas
You don't make musical sounds by just sitting there. You have to fight for them. Music begins with little acts of violence, and we've been learning how to do that for a very long time. This episode is about turning kinet
This episode is about one of the things that launched us on our journey toward making music, which would eventually get us to the guitar. That one thing is our feet. Which is really two things. When we began to walk upri
In this episode we'll go back in time, into a cave with a Greek God, where a mythical stringed instrument was created, and on to Wisconsin, California, and Mississippi, in search of an origin story for the guitar. The ti
A People's History of the Guitar is about people, the guitar, people and their guitars, and the guitar and its people. In this introductory episode, you'll find out about what the podcast is about, why I decided to do it
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