What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis

by Ken Stephenson

Book Overview

In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the theoretical underpinnings of the style and, for the first time, systematically focusing not on rock music's history or sociology, but on the structural aspects of the music...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300092393
• ISBN13: 9780300092394
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.7"