Contents: Foreword; Preface; 10 musical lives of the guitar; Taking stock of the guitar phenomenon; The new guitarscape and musical instrument studies; Notes on guitarscaping; Materiality and the virtual guitar; The sensual culture of the guitar; Gender and sexuality in the new guitarscape; The power and agency of the guitar; Guitars, travel and translation; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

Kevin Dawe is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of the School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent, UK.

In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument. He presents a synthesis of previous work on the guitar, but also expands the terms by which the guitar might be studied, drawing from studies in science and technology, design theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and globalization. Dawe presents the guitar as an instrument involved in an enormous variety of cultural interactions and political exchanges in many different contexts around the world.