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Rock, the primary text : developing a musicology of rock / Allan F. Moore.
LIBRA ML3534 .M66 2001
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3534 .M66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Allan F.
- Series:
- Ashgate popular and folk music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock music--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Issues in theory 9
- The musicological background 9
- Analytical approaches 11
- The aesthetic question 15
- The pop-classical split 18
- Intensional/extensional 22
- Listening strategy, style and function 24
- Analytic language 29
- 2 Elements of an analytic musicology of rock 33
- Instrumental roles 35
- Rhythmic organization 41
- The voice 44
- Melody 49
- Harmonic patterns and formal structures 52
- Open-ended repetitive patterns 55
- The open/closed principle 58
- Composing at the instrument 59
- 3 Progressive styles and issues 64
- Rock traditions 66
- The beginnings of progressive rock 69
- 'African American' influences 71
- Blues as pretext 73
- Blues as (con)text 76
- Improvisation in rock 83
- The jazz influence 88
- Art rock 90
- Listening to progressive rock 98
- An insular path 101
- Progressive folk 107
- Fantasy 109
- Conclusion: the progress of progressive rock 114
- 4 A profusion of styles 119
- Technology and texture 120
- Glam rock 126
- The punk aesthetic 129
- The punk diaspora 139
- Beyond progressive rock 145
- Hard rock and heavy metal 147
- Synthesizer rock 151
- Timbre and its gestural qualities 154
- Authenticity reconstituted: guitar bands 157
- Authenticity reconstituted: roots rock 165
- Britpop 172
- 5 Meanings 181
- Communication 181
- The mediation of self-expression 187
- Style and identity 191
- Meaning and style 195
- Authenticity and intertextuality 198
- Parody, pastiche and performance 201
- Stylistic development 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-238), discography and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754602982
- 0754602990
- OCLC:
- 46685443
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