Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

by Edward Macan

Book Overview

Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling virtuosity and spectacular live concerts made it hugely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098889
• ISBN13: 9780195098884
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"