MIM’s Telly Award-winning documentary, The Electric Guitar, tells the history of the electric guitar from the very beginning, including its most experimental period of the 1930s and 1940s, and gives a glimpse into how the electric guitar played an integral role in American music and culture and inspired emulation worldwide. Hear interviews with Grammy Award–winning jazz guitarist George Benson, guitar historians and collectors, friends and family of the pioneers of the electric guitar, and more. Produced for MIM’s 2018 special exhibition The Electric Guitar: Inventing an American Icon. Stay Connected with MIM Subscribe: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: The World’s Only Global Musical Instrument Museum® Phoenix, Arizona USA
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