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  • Psychedelic Popular Music

    A History through Musical Topic Theory

    by William Echard ...
    Series series Musical Meaning and Interpretation
    Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores the historical development of psychedelic music and its various stylistic incarnations as a genre ... Read more

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  • Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy

    by William Echard ...
    "This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist . . . Neil Young." —Daniel Cavicchi, author of Tramps Like UsAs a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Everything in its Right Place

    Analyzing Radiohead

    by Brad Osborn, Ph.D. ...
    More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions. While averting mainstream trends but still achieving a significant level of success in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Musical Guide to In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson

    Musical Guides to King Crimson, #2

    by Andrew Keeling ...
    Series Book 2 - Musical Guides to King Crimson
    An informative, insightful guide to the secret mechanics that power the mysterious music of King Crimson. This guide takes you through all the complexities of the music, stripping away layer after layer to reveal the inner workings of the exquisite machinery of harmony, counterpoint and rhythm that, seemingly so effortlessly, go together to make: "In The Court Of The Crimson King". ... Read more

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  • Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    by S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Led Zeppelin and Philosophy

    All Will Be Revealed

    Edited by Scott Calef ...
    Series Book 44 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly, funk, classical, country, Indian, and Arabic techniques. They performed the alchemical trick of transmuting base led into gold-and platinum-and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rush and Philosophy

    Heart and Mind United

    by Jim Berti, Durrell Bowman ...
    Series Book 57 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I Love You Man. Their seven-part song 2112” was included in a version of Guitar Hero” released in 2010. The group even appeared on The Colbert Report ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Music of Joni Mitchell

    by Lloyd Whitesell ...
    Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    by Edward Macan ...
    Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

    by Robert Walser ...
    "A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal." — Library JournalDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the ... Read more

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