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The 52 pages that link to Electric guitar, each with the reason it gives.

• Rock musicRelated: Its amplified tone, riffs, and solos are defining elements of much rock music.

• Rock and rollRelated: Amplified guitar riffs and solos became prominent sounds in rock and roll.

• Rhythm and bluesRelated: Amplified guitar gave small ensembles a prominent, cutting voice.

• Country rockRelated: Amplified guitars supply the volume, sustain, and timbre associated with rock arrangements.

• Blues rockRelated: Its amplified tone and expressive bends are central to the style’s sound.

• Chicago bluesRelated: Amplified guitar carried both melodic solos and forceful rhythm parts.

• Folk rockRelated: Amplified guitar gives folk-derived songs the sustain, volume, and attack of rock.

• Muddy WatersRelated: Its amplification gave Waters’s guitar the volume and presence central to his band sound.

• Congolese rumbaRelated: Amplified guitar lines carry the melodic interplay central to many rumba arrangements.

• Electronic musical instrumentRelated: It shows how electronic circuitry can shape a sound initiated by vibrating strings.

• Garage rockRelated: Amplified guitars gave garage bands their loud, distorted sound.

• Heavy metal musicRelated: Amplified electric guitars supply metal’s characteristic volume, sustain, and distortion.

• Honky-tonkRelated: Amplification helped honky-tonk bands cut through crowded, noisy venues.

• SoukousRelated: Bright, nimble guitar lines give soukous much of its distinctive sound.

• DistortionRelated: Distortion became a defining tone-shaping effect in electric-guitar music.

• Guitar amplifierRelated: Its amplified signal created the need for dedicated guitar amplifiers.

• Smooth jazzRelated: Clean, sustained electric-guitar solos provide an alternative to saxophone leads.

• Luk thungRelated: Amplified guitars bring rock and other international popular styles into many arrangements.

• Pop rockRelated: Its amplified riffs and chord patterns supply pop rock’s characteristic rock texture.

• MbaqangaRelated: Bright, interlocking electric-guitar parts became a defining feature of many mbaqanga bands.

• San Francisco SoundRelated: Amplification and effects let San Francisco guitarists reshape tones and sustain notes across long improvisations.

• African JazzRelated: Amplified guitar lines gave African Jazz’s arrangements their crisp, mobile lead sound.

• Gilberto GilRelated: Its amplified sound helped Gil challenge expectations about Brazilian popular music in the 1960s.

• King Sunny AdéRelated: Interlocking electric-guitar lines became a defining feature of Adé’s juju arrangements.

• Power balladRelated: Distorted guitar often supplies the weight and dramatic lift of the climactic section.

• Rock bandRelated: Its amplified tone and distortion often define a rock band’s sound.

• Ritchie ValensRelated: Valens used amplified guitar to give “La Bamba” its rock-band drive.

• Thomas MapfumoRelated: In Mapfumo’s bands, guitar lines adapted mbira-like interlocking patterns for amplified popular music.

• Ike TurnerRelated: Distorted electric guitar helped give “Rocket 88” its rough, influential sound.

• Luis Alberto SpinettaRelated: Spinetta used expressive guitar tone and phrasing as a compositional voice.

• Mahotella QueensRelated: Bright electric guitar lines provide a defining rhythmic and melodic layer in mbaqanga.

• Pumpuang DuangjanRelated: Electric instrumentation helped give modern luk thung a more amplified pop sound.

• Electric Light OrchestraRelated: Its amplified sound keeps the arrangements rooted in rock even when strings dominate.

• Eusèbe JaojobyRelated: Amplified guitar lines are prominent in the modern salegy sound Jaojoby performs.

• Moranbong BandRelated: Electric guitar gives the ensemble’s arrangements a prominent rock-influenced sound.

• TinariwenRelated: Amplified guitar carries Tinariwen’s interlocking riffs and links its sound to rock and blues.