The rock music imagination / Robert McParland.

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, id est creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how r...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McParland, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2019]
Series:For the record: Lexington studies in rock and popular music.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Themes in classic rock music : rebellion, utopia, and liberation
  • Listening to the blues
  • The imaginative legacy of the Beats : countercultural utopia
  • Science fiction imagination and fantasy in progressive rock
  • The end of the world as we know it : rock music dystopia
  • Rock romanticism : power chords and the visionary company
  • Paperback writers : rock music and fiction
  • Human rights, community, and global rock.