Waksman, Steve

Steve Waksman is Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. His works include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shapingof Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 1999), and This Ain t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (University of California Press, 2009), thelatter of which was awarded the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for best scholarly book on popularmusic by the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.With Reebee Garofalo he co-authored the sixth edition of Ro...