The Intersection of Gender and the Electric Guitar

When you think of an electric guitar, who do you picture playing it? Electric guitars are stereotypically a male instrument, but its origins seem to say otherwise.

Janelle Johnstone, Associate Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies and PHD Candidate in the School of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, joined us this morning to explain further. 

 

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The Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/from-sister-rosetta-tharpe-to-ronnie-yoshiko-fujiyama-how-electric-guitarists-challenge-expectations-of-gender-254704

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