Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s

ISBN-13: 9780826423320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str.

Paul Hegarty

Opis

A sleeping new study, 'Beyond and Before' considers the high period of the early to mid-1970s, where there was widespread acceptance of the 'progressive' approach of detailed instrumentation, extended tracks and conceptual linkage and development across albums. The authors assess the roots of progressive rock. Each set of connections are justified and grounded by close textual readings of musical works, a consideration of their material presentation, and an examination of performance and cultural contexts. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies and Head of the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. Paul Hegarty teaches Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork, in Ireland.

Recenzje

Examining every aspect of progressive rock - words and music, theatre and politics - Hegarty and Halliwell deftly unpick the tangled threads of tradition and radicalism that make up the genre's tapestry. In addition to shedding vital new light on an often maligned and misunderstood phase in rock's history, this probing and incisive study tracks prog's continued and unexpected reverberations through popular music long after punk had supposedly vanquished and banished it. Simon Reynolds, author of Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past and Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84

Spis treści

Introduction Progressive Rock since the 1960sPart 1: Before and DuringChapter 1 Extended FormChapter 2 Roots of Progressive RockChapter 3 Out of the GardenChapter 4 The Concept AlbumChapter 5 Myth and ModernityChapter 6 Progressive FusionChapter 7 Performance and VisualityPart 2: BeyondChapter 8 Social CritiqueChapter 9 Responses to PunkChapter 10 Neo-ProgressiveChapter 11 The Female VoiceChapter 12 Post-ProgressiveChapter 13 The Return of FolkChapter 14 The Metal ProgressionCoda: The Future NowDiscographyVideographyBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author and editor of 14 books that span intellectual, cultural and literary history and the health humanities, including Neil Young: American Traveller (2015), Reframing 1968 (2018) and American Health Crisis (2021).