Rocking the Classics - English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

Zusatztext there is no getting away from its sheer vastness! tackling the quintessentially English subject with all the authority of a great American tome ... Macan's insight and detail is first-rate Klappentext Despite having authored what is to my knowledge the first comprehensive study of progressive rock! I must admit that my involvement in the progressive rock scene has heretofore been as an objective observer! not as a participant. To be sure! I was a fan during the music's commercial heyday of the mid- to late 1970s-- although I never was involved to the point of joining any band's fan club--and I have attempted to remain abreast of developments in the progressive rock scene. Zusammenfassung This study looks at the music and history of progressive rock, a genre criticized for its privileged, upper-middle class roots. By using an interdisciplinary approach it shows how progressive rock served as a vital cultural expression of the counterculture of the late 1960s and 1970s in England.

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• Authors: Edward Macan, Edward (Assistant Professor of Music Macan, Edward L. Macan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.1997
• EAN: 9780195098877
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509887-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries