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Experiencing Rush
A Listener's Companion
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2014
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Few bands have proven as long-standing and experimental as the Canadian rock act Rush, which has successfully survived and adapted like few others by continuing to work in an album-oriented “progressive hard rock” style. Rush bridged its original blues-rock style with progressive rock and heavy metal in the 1970s, explored new wave and synth rock in the 1980s, and then created a new kind of alternative hard rock in the 1990s and 2000s. Throughout its career Rush has stubbornly remained musically and lyrically individualistic. The band created dozens of albums over its four decades—with 45 million sold—and embarked on major concert tours for millions of fans across the globe.The band’s music appeals not just to mainstream rock fans but to those musicians who admire the structural complexity of its music.
In Experiencing Rush: A Listener’s Companion, music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers through Rush’s long career, explaining through the artful combination of biography, history, and musical exegesis how to listen to this unique act. From Rush’s emergence as an early blues-rock power trio of guitar, bass, and drums into the godfathers of progressive hard rock, Bowman marks the band’s first breakthrough with its landmark, sci-fi/individualist album 2112. From there, readers explore Rush’s movement from “prog rock” extended compositions into shorter, potential-radio-play “post-prog” songs, leading to Rush’s most successful album Moving Pictures in 1981. In its later career, Rush adventurously mixed progressive hard rock and music technology, generating a new power trio sound that featured further stylistic evolutions. As Bowman makes clear, it is the band’s stalwart path and many influences on fans, musicians, and others that resulted in Rush’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Rush is a legendary group, and Experiencing Rush is specially written for music fans seeking a deeper look into the band’s work, as well as for new listeners ready to discover the unique and diverse sound of one of rock’s greatest acts.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3130-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3131-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
170
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Contents No access
Series Editor’s Foreword No access
Timeline No access
Introduction No access
1 “Finding My Way” No access Pages 1 - 16
2 “Their Own Music” No access Pages 17 - 32
3 “The Universe Divided” No access Pages 33 - 52
4 “Modern-Day Warrior” No access Pages 53 - 64
5 “Be Cool or Be Cast Out” No access Pages 65 - 82
6 “Against the Run of the Mill” No access Pages 83 - 96
7 “It’s Hard to Play It Safe” No access Pages 97 - 118
8 “To the Margin of Error” No access Pages 119 - 136
9 “Some Will Be Rewarded” No access Pages 137 - 152
Conclusion No access Pages 153 - 156
Selected Reading No access Pages 157 - 158
Selected Listening No access Pages 159 - 160
Index No access Pages 161 - 168
About the Author No access Pages 169 - 170
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