Electrified, Amplified, and Deified: The Invention of the Electric Guitar in America

The electric guitar may be the most important instrument to arise during the 20th century. While initially developed during the 1930s in a quest simply for a louder guitar, the invention of an electrified version of the instrument ended up revolutionizing popular music, impacting global musical genres, and achieving iconic status as a symbol of American culture. Join Monica Smith and the Riverfront Museum’s own Zac Zetterberg in a conversation about this stellar instrument.
Featuring Monica M. Smith, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation at the Lemelson Center with the Smithsonian
with Zac Zetterberg, Curator of Art and the Center for American Decoys
Monica M. Smith is the Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation for the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). She oversees conceptual and logistical planning for exhibitions, including serving as project director, grant principal investigator, and co-curator for three NSF-funded exhibitions: the in-progress Game Changers exhibition; the award-winning Places of Invention exhibition currently on display at NMAH; and the previous award-winning Invention at Play traveling exhibition. Monica previously co-curated the exhibition From Frying Pan to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric Guitar and has served on many other exhibition teams as a historian and educator. In addition, Monica helps develop and manage myriad Lemelson Center public programs and contribute to workshops, publications, and research initiatives about the history of invention and innovation in America and informal invention education.

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