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Kenan Professor of Sociology, Dept of Sociology @ UNC Chapel Hill

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Highly-Skilled Craft Workers Who Make Guitars Face the Same “Winner-Take-All” Competitive Market As Other Creative Professions

In her ethnographic study of guitar makers in North America over the past century, Guitar Makers: the Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America (University of Chicago press, 2014) Kathryn Marie Dudley provides a penetrating analysis of the dilemma facing high-end guitar makers. After World War II, it appeared that mass-produced guitars were going to put handcrafted guitars out of business. On top read more

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This entry was posted in Creative professionals, Uncategorized and tagged CNC machines, craft work, creativity, ethnography, field work, guitar, guitar making, practices, success on September 7, 2018 by Howard Aldrich.

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