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\n \u201cA hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history\u201d (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar\u2019s amplified sound\u2014Leo Fender and Les Paul\u2014and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.<\/p>\n

In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock \u2019n\u2019 roll\u2014and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender\u2019s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an \u201caxe\u201d that would make Fender\u2019s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul\u2014whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought\u2014to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world\u2019s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo.<\/p>\n

While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s\u2014including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton\u2014adopted one maker\u2019s guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable.<\/p>\n

In \u201can excellent dual portrait\u201d (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering \u201cspot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars\u201d (The Atlantic). \u201cThe story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new\u201d (The Washington Post). <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e Scribner (November 19, 2019)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 352 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1501141732
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1501141737
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches <\/p>\n

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