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The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rock's attention to human rights in the global community.
List of contents
Introduction: Themes in Classic Rock Music: Rebellion, Utopia, and Liberation
Chapter One: Listening to the Blues
Chapter Two: The Imaginative Legacy of the Beats: Countercultural Utopia
Chapter Three: Science Fiction Imagination and Fantasy in Progressive Rock
Chapter Four: The End of the World as We Know It: Rock Music Dystopia
Chapter Five: Rock Romanticism: Power Chords and the Imaginary Company:
Chapter Six: Paperback Writers: Rock Music and Fiction
Chapter Seven: Human Rights, Community, and Global Rock
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By Robert McParland
Summary
The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rock’s attention to human rights in the global community.
