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The Rock Music Imagination
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2019
Summary
The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how rock music touches our imaginative lives by looking at themes that appear in classic rock music: freedom and liberation, utopia and dystopia, community, rebellion, the outsider, the quest for transcendence, monstrosity, erotic and spiritual love, imaginative vision, and mystery. The Rock Music Imagination explores blues imagination, countercultural dreams of utopia, rock’s critiques of society and images of dystopia, rock’s inheritance from romanticism, science fiction and mythic imagination in progressive rock, and rock’s global reach and potential to provide hope and humanitarian assistance.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8852-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8853-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1 Listening to the Blues No access Pages 15 - 40
2 The Imaginative Legacy of the Beats No access Pages 41 - 60
3 Science Fiction Imagination and Fantasy in Progressive Rock No access Pages 61 - 86
4 The End of the World as We Know It No access Pages 87 - 114
5 Rock Romanticism No access Pages 115 - 136
6 Paperback Writers No access Pages 137 - 158
7 Human Rights, Community, and Global Rock No access Pages 159 - 186
