How Black Musicians Turned Electric Guitars Into Weapons Of Musical Revolution
The Birth Of A New Sound: When Black musicians first picked up electric guitars in the 1940s, they changed music forever. Artists like T-Bone Walker and Sister Rosetta Tharpe took the guitar beyond its acoustic limits. They plugged into amplifiers and created sounds that could fill entire rooms with raw power. This wasn't just louder music - it was a complete transformation of how guitars could express human emotion.