One early article on the remarkable popularity of DIY in the USA written in 1958 wondered “how any discussion of do-it-yourself could be so conspicuously absent in contemporary literature on the subject of leisure” (Roland Citation1958, 156).
It is pertinent here to give a brief overview of how the topic of “do-it-yourself” (DIY) has been addressed as an area of academic study, as it seems that for a long time it eluded analysis.
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A number of these makers have set themselves up as serial manufacturers, making the construction and playing of cigar box guitars an area ripe for academic study and analysis. His promotion of rough and ready homemade instruments has been a major driving force behind their increase in popularity over the last decade, particularly in the UK, where his influence has led many people to make and play cigar box guitars. Over the course of the next few years, Seasick Steve released major-label CDs, performed live at numerous festivals, and appeared widely on national television drawing music out of a variety of homemade instruments including basic, one-string “diddly bows,” cigar box guitars, and hub-cap banjos. His performance reminded viewers that expensive, “perfect” musical instruments were not a necessity for high-quality music, and that in fact, there might be something about such a rudimentary approach that brought the performer closer to the “soul” of blues music. When it was his turn to play, he sat alone, holding his old, dilapidated, cheap six-string electric guitar fitted with only three strings and a home-made stomp box he called the “Mississippi Drum Machine.” He played a “three-string trance boogie” that included a brief history of his time living rough, and finished spectacularly by rubbing his guitar strings vigorously on the edge of his amplifier before dropping his guitar to the side and walking off to huge cheers and wild applause. He carried his battered guitar with him wherever he went, even to the toilet! They were inseparable, like it was his best friend.
He had the air of someone with no fixed abode.
Not like the other polished performers around him.
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