La Guitarra Eléctrica (the Electric Guitar)

Durante d?cadas, los toques y chirridos de la guitarra el?ctrica han sido algunos de los sonidos que definen la m?sica popular. Pero tuvo que pasar m?s de un siglo de esfuerzo e innovaci?n antes de que este instrumento fuera el?ctrico.

For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music. But more than a century of effort and innovation had to happen before this instrument went electric. Learn about the master craftspeople who created the guitar as we know it, the inventors who figured out how to send guitar notes through amplifiers and give the guitar a bigger sound, and the musicians whose legendary playing put it at the center of rock 'n' roll. This title is now available in Spanish.