Beyond and before : progressive rock since the 1960s / Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hegarty, Paul, 1967-

Contributor:

Halliwell, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressive rock music--History and criticism.

Progressive rock music.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Progressive rock since the 1960s

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2011.

Summary:

A stereotypical narrative of progressive rock claims that so-called "prog" helped destroy itself with excess and melodrama (with the bands Yes; Genesis; Jethro Tull; and Emerson, Lake and Palmer typically standing out as cited examples) and was then finally killed off by the fury and simplicity of punk. Hegarty (philosophy and visual culture, U. College Cork, Ireland) and Halliwell (American studies, U. of Leicester, England) seek to problematize this narrative, by describing progressive rock by going beyond such iconic bands as above, insisting that progressive rock is a heterogenous and troublesome genre, and examining its history from its roots in earlier examples of the concept album and song-cycle to its legacies in the neo-progressive and post-progressive revivals in the 1980s and 1990s. They argue that progressive rock was a highly varied genre that tapped into broader cultural resonances that link to avant-garde art, classical and folk music, performance, and the moving image. They also seek to make the case that progressive rock is a global music that built on (and complicated) the counterculture's insistence on individual and social freedoms. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304), discogaphy (pages 291-297), videography (page 298), and index.

ISBN:

9780826423320

0826423329

9780826440754

0826440754

OCLC:

741683751