Conference Schedule

SATURDAY OCTOBER 8TH

Conference: Senate Room SUB, TTU Campus: on Zoom and also available for live attendance

9:00am: arrivals

9:15am: Opening remarks: this is digital humanities (Michael Borshuk, TTU Humanities Center)

9:30-10:30am IDENTITY AND THE ELECTRIC GUITAR - online available (Join Zoom Meeting ):

  1. Schmidt Horning, “Gender, Power, and the Electric Guitar”

  2. DiBernardo, “Certificate of Authenticity: Desire, Anxiety, and the Electric Guitar(ist)”

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:15 THE ELECTRIC GUITAR: TECHNOLOGY, SOUND, AND MEANING - online available (Join Zoom Meeting )

  1. Ronning, “Guitar Shop: Craft and the Creation of the Minneapolis Music Scene 1974-1985”

  2. Waksman, “Make It Loud: Why Amplifiers Matter”

12:15-1:30: Lunch break

1:30-2:15: Curtis Peoples “Jesse ‘Guitar’ Taylor and Newman Guitars” - in the room (Join Zoom Meeting )

2:15-2:30: Break

2:30-3:30: GUITAR TOWN: LUBBOCK’S GUITAR HERITAGE panel Scott Faris, Alan Crossland, David Brandon, John Sprott, Joy Harris, Doug Stapp, Chris Smith, chair. Camera / stream. Instagram. (Join Zoom Meeting )

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-4:30: Wired: The Electric Guitar in Public History: Lance Tawzer, “Guitars from the State of Sound”; Jeff Kollath, “Masters of the Soul Guitar”; Bob Beatty, “The Guitars of Duane Allman.” online available (Join Zoom Meeting )

Senate Room: 4:45-5:30: Deke Dickerson [keynote] “Bigsby and Fender: How the Solidbody Electric Guitar went from a Tiny California Garage Workshop to Conquering Texas (and the World)" [live in the room only but also recorded] (Join Zoom Meeting )

5:30: Closing