Experiencing progressive rock : a listener's companion / Robert G.H. Burns.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Listener's companionPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018Description: xxxiv, 182 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442266025
  • 1442266023
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML 3534 .B8636 2018
Contents:
"From the beginning" : the struggle for definition -- Conceptuality : embracing the long player and technology advances in sound reproduction -- Enemies at the door : prog under threat -- A new decade and a new progressive rock -- New directions in the 1990s and 2000s -- Tripping the light fantastic : progressive rock and spectacle -- New life : reuniting for renewed success -- Postprog : a new struggle for definition -- Conclusion: Is contemporary progressive rock driven by musical "progression"?
Summary: Robert G.H. Burns brings together the several strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970 and follows the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition into the modern era.
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

Robert G.H. Burns brings together the several strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970 and follows the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition into the modern era.

"From the beginning" : the struggle for definition -- Conceptuality : embracing the long player and technology advances in sound reproduction -- Enemies at the door : prog under threat -- A new decade and a new progressive rock -- New directions in the 1990s and 2000s -- Tripping the light fantastic : progressive rock and spectacle -- New life : reuniting for renewed success -- Postprog : a new struggle for definition -- Conclusion: Is contemporary progressive rock driven by musical "progression"?

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