The best contemporary acoustic artists. Titles in this 46-song collection include: Allison Road * Come to My Window * Foolish Games * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * Leaving Las Vegas * Misery * One Headlight * One of Us * Runaround * Sex and Candy * Stay (I Missed You) * Tears in Heaven * You and the Mona Lisa.

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.

"Renowned luthier John S. Bogdanovich crafted the project shown inside for his own personal use. The design he presents is simple but elegant and is a composite of ideas borrowed from several different guitars admired for their tonal qualities and aesthetic details. In close-up photographs Bogdanovich invites you to stand by his side and follow the entire process from start to finish. He offers guidance through every step, and explains every decision, from the arrangement of his workbench and the selection of the wood, to tuning and setting up the instrument. Bogdanovich also provides a choice of alternative methods and materials -- to help you find your own style of working, and to enable you to add your personal touches to your project. By the time your instrument is finished, you'll have acquired a world of knowledge, from the difference between quartersawn and flat-sawn wood to the pros and cons of lacquer versus French polish. You'll have mastered dozens of skills, including bending and aminating wood and cutting and seating wire frets. Best of all, you'll have a beautiful instrument, designed to your own specifications, that will give pleasure to everyone who hears it." -- Book jacket.

This recent addition to the Acoustic Masterclass series features 12 beautiful acoustic guitar interpretations of classic Christmas music as performed by David Cullen, Doug Smith, and Laurence Juber. The included CD contains the original recordings from three beautiful Christmas CDs from Cullen, Smith, and Juber respectively. Arranged and recorded by Doug Smith, winner of the 2006 Fingerstyle Championship at Winfield Festival: Deck the Halls * Hark the Herald Angels Sing * I Saw Three Ships * Jingle Bells. Arranged and recorded by David Cullen: Go Tell It on the Mountain * O Come Emmanuel * O Come All Ye Faithful * Silent Night. Arranged and recorded by Laurence Juber: Away in a Manger * The Bells of Paradise * Good King Wenceslas * Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. The CD alone will become one of your favorite holiday recordings and is included with this book at a great price!

(Guitar Method). This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andres Segovia, is now completely revised and updated! Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful classical pieces, 26 exercises and 14 duets, and through numerous photos and illustrations. The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more!