Electric Guitar: Its Makers and Its Players (DVD)

The Lemelson Center presents this 1996 video field trip in cooperation with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Meet guitar maker Paul Reed Smith and guitar player G.E. Smith, who demonstrate their crafts and share stories about some of the people involved in developing and popularizing the electric guitar. Moderated by Bob Santelli, former director of education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Format: DVD, closed captioned, 30 minutes, 2004

How to order: Available free of charge (however, a shipping fee of $2 in the U.S., $5 elsewhere, applies) from the International Technology Education Association. See page 14 of the ITEA Product Guide for details, or email orders@iteaconnect.org.

Additional materials:

Teacher's resource guide (PDF document. File size: 820K. Download time: less than 1 min. @ 56K)

The Lemelson Center educators have developed a variety of resources for teachers, parents, and students who want to explore the exciting world of invention. Full listing

Books and Articles

Millard, Andre, ed. The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3145.html

Smith, Monica M. "The Electric Guitar: How We Got From Andres Segovia to Kurt Cobain." American Heritage of Invention and Technology 20, no. 1 (Summer 2004): 12-21.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2004/1/2004_1_12.shtml

Other

Electric guitar video documentation (1996)
http://inventions.smithsonian.org/resources/oralandvideo_detail.aspx?id=233

Electrified, Amplified and Deified radio program by Smithsonian Productions http://www.si.edu/sp/onair/guitar.htm

Related Links

Our thanks to the following organizations for their participation in Lemelson Center's 1996 electric guitar programs:

Benedetto guitars
benedetto-guitars.com

Experience Music Project
www.emplive.org

Fender Musical Instruments Corp.
www.fender.com

Fred Gretsch Enterprises
www.gretsch.com

Gruhn Guitars
www.gruhn.com

Guitar Player magazine
www.guitarplayer.com

Guitar World magazine
www.guitarworld.com

Hamer at "Electrified, Amplified, and Deified"
www.dantzig.com/hamerhist/

Martin Guitar Company
www.mguitar.com

Music Educators National Conference
www.menc.org

National Reso-Phonic Guitars
www.nationalguitars.com

Paul Reed Smith Guitars
www.prsguitars.com

Rickenbacker International Corp.
www.rickenbacker.com

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
www.rockhall.com

20th Century Guitar magazine
www.tcguitar.com

Vintage Guitar magazine
www.vguitar.com