...Isabella Fincher The music press in the United States has historically underrepresented and marginalized female guitarists, perpetuating and reinforcing the masculinization of the electric guitar in rock music culture. This study uses quantitive and textual analysis to examine gendered media...

...-songwriter Bob Dylan’s career that is most unmarked by religion, namely his appearance with an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan’s going electric became, through subsequent years of narrative attention, a secularizing event. “Secularizing event” is a phrase coined to capture how...

...Alyxandra Vesey This article uses textual and discourse analysis to examine how Annie Clark, who records and performs under the alias St. Vincent, problematized the electric guitar’s gendered address by designing a Signature Collection for Music Man, a subsidiary of equipment manufacturer Ernie...