Review:
"This book honors the decades of unremitting toil that a generation of self-discovered artists invested in bringing the 'folk' guitar to its current pinnacle of sophistication. The barriers to this evolution have been formidable, beginning with the scorn of polite society and continuing up through today's baffling legislation that impedes the movement of millions of fine guitars across national borders. Now that the cultural and commercial ship has come in, can luthiers serve both Art and Mammon? That is the question that drives this groundbreaking anthropological analysis."--Tim Olsen, president of the Guild of American Luthiers
""Acoustic Desire" attunes readers to the complex works and lives of American artisan guitar makers. In this finely honed ethnography, Dudley helps us hear how guitar makers seek to challenge capitalist mythmaking by pursuing work out of a sense of passion, even obsession, often at the expense of profit. Dudley's luthiers, consoled by the conviction that others might recognize in the quality of their products the values that make their labor worth pursuing, come alive in this engaging anthropology of commodities, class and craft."--Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese
""Guitar Makers" attunes readers to the complex works and lives of American artisan guitar makers. In this finely honed ethnography, Dudley helps us hear how guitar makers seek to challenge capitalist mythmaking by pursuing work out of a sense of passion, even obsession, often at the expense of profit. Dudley's luthiers, consoled by the conviction that others might recognize in the quality of their products the values that make their labor worth pursuing, come alive in this engaging anthropology of commodities, class, and craft."--Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese
""Guitar Makers" is a terrific book. Dudley has investigated the world of North American guitar making, or "lutherie," the long hard way, the way of intense participation and observation, deep involvement in the world she studied, and in general following the old anthropological wisdom of seeing for yourself and asking about everything you don't understand."--Howard S. Becker "author of Art from Start to Finish "
""Guitar Makers" is a must read for anyone working in the field of guitar building. . . . Born out of the spirit of the late '60s, with more than a tinge of hippie idealism, the roots of American modern lutherie are far from the European model, grown out of the medieval guild system, with its mistrust, secrecy of methods and territorial angst."--Michael Spalt, European Guitar Builders
"Guitar Makers" is a must read for anyone working in the field of guitar building. . . . Born out of the spirit of the late '60s, with more than a tinge of hippie idealism, the roots of American modern lutherie are far from the European model, grown out of the medieval guild system, with its mistrust, secrecy of methods and territorial angst. --Michael Spalt, European Guitar Builders"
This book honors the decades of unremitting toil that a generation of self-discovered artists invested in bringing the folk guitar to its current pinnacle of sophistication. The barriers to this evolution have been formidable, beginning with the scorn of polite society and continuing up through today s baffling legislation that impedes the movement of millions of fine guitars across national borders. Now that the cultural and commercial ship has come in, can luthiers serve both Art and Mammon? That is the question that drives this groundbreaking anthropological analysis. --Tim Olsen, president of the Guild of American Luthiers"
"Guitar Makers"is a terrific book. Dudley has investigated the world of North American guitar making, or"lutherie," the long hard way, the way of intense participation and observation, deep involvement in the world she studied, and in general following the old anthropological wisdom of seeing for yourself and asking about everything you don t understand. --Howard S. Becker "author of Art from Start to Finish ""
"Guitar Makers" attunes readers to the complex works and lives of American artisan guitar makers. In this finely honed ethnography, Dudley helps us hear how guitar makers seek to challenge capitalist mythmaking by pursuing work out of a sense of passion, even obsession, often at the expense of profit. Dudley s luthiers, consoled by the conviction that others might recognize in the quality of their products the values that make their labor worth pursuing, come alive in this engaging anthropology of commodities, class, and craft. --Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese"
Guitar Makers is a must read for anyone working in the field of guitar building. . . . Born out of the spirit of the late '60s, with more than a tinge of hippie idealism, the roots of American modern lutherie are far from the European model, grown out of the medieval guild system, with its mistrust, secrecy of methods and territorial angst. --Michael Spalt, European Guitar Builders"
About the Author:
Kathryn Marie Dudley is professor of anthropology and American studies at Yale University.
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