Robert Mcparland

The Rock Music Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498588539
• Artikelnr.: 57160381

Autorenporträt

Robert McParland is Professor of English and the Humanities at Felician University, USA. He is a singer-songwriter who holds degrees in arts administration, literary studies, and cultural history. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Literature (2015), Citizen Steinbeck (2016), and Rock Music Imagination (2019), all published by Bloomsbury.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Themes in Classic Rock Music: Rebellion, Utopia, and
Liberation
Chapter One: Listening to the Blues
Chapter Two: The Imaginative Legacy of the Beats: Countercultural Utopia
Chapter Three: Science Fiction Imagination and Fantasy in Progressive Rock
Chapter Four: The End of the World as We Know It: Rock Music Dystopia
Chapter Five: Rock Romanticism: Power Chords and the Imaginary Company:
Chapter Six: Paperback Writers: Rock Music and Fiction
Chapter Seven: Human Rights, Community, and Global Rock