{"id":10157,"date":"2021-05-19T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:05:40","slug":"professor-paul-atkinsons-amplified-the-design-history-of-the-electric-guitar-reviewed-by-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/professor-paul-atkinsons-amplified-the-design-history-of-the-electric-guitar-reviewed-by-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Paul Atkinson’s ‘Amplified: The Design History of the Electric Guitar’ reviewed by The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hallam professor traces design history of the electric guitar in new book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor of Design and Design History, Paul Atkinson<\/a>, has written a book about the design history and development of the electric guitar, from invention through to mass production.\u00a0 The book, ‘Amplified: The Design History of the Electric Guitar’ has been reviewed by The Wire (page 3),<\/a> and “offers an exhaustive and attractive discussion of a classic of modern design”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hallam professor traces design history of the electric guitar in new book. Professor of Design and Design History, Paul Atkinson, has written a book about the design history and development of the electric guitar, from invention through to mass production.\u00a0 The book, ‘Amplified: The Design History of the Electric Guitar’ has been reviewed by The Wire (page 3), and “offers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139,143],"tags":[1648,1245,1672,165,1671,167,164,1719],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-admrc","tag-design","tag-design-history","tag-design-history-research","tag-guitar","tag-guitars","tag-paul-atkinson","tag-the-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2021\/05\/24390b22-d17b-b30c-f02a-fd13010b5d46.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2DP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10553,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atkinson-amplified-world-service-the-forum\/","url_meta":{"origin":10157,"position":0},"title":"Delving into the roots of the electric guitar – Professor Paul Atkinson interviewed on the BBC World Service’s ‘The Forum’ about how the electric guitar has conquered popular music","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"10\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Paul Atkinson, industrial designer and design historian at Sheffield Hallam and author of Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar, has appeared on BBC World Service's The Forum discussing how the electric guitar has conquered popular music. 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