Exploring the guitar's cultural significance, this social history delves into its influential role in Romantic England, highlighting its impact on music, society, and artistic expression. The narrative uncovers the instrument's evolution and its connection to key figures and movements of the era, emphasizing how the guitar shaped musical landscapes and personal identities during a transformative period in history.
This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.
The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This book charts its success in England during the seventeenth century, a time of great political upheaval in England. It gathers a rich array of portraits, archival materials and literary works, and will interest guitar enthusiasts as well as music historians.