| Description |
xiv, 280 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The triumph of vulgarity: rock and romantic pantheism -- I am white, but o, my soul is black: the origins of rock in the romantic primitive -- Dreams of Elysian: blues, folk, and rock pantheism -- I formulate infinity: feeling, self, and growth in rock's forever now -- The road of vulgar excess: conventions of rock selfhood -- The zombie birdhouse and the great rock 'n' roll swindle: rock and the world -- Man and God at rock 'n' roll high school: popular culture and its critics -- De la musique avant toute chose: a rock aesthetic |
| Summary |
This book is an effort to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romaniticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts. The book disassembles the various myths of rock: its roots in black and folk music; the primacy it accords to feeling and self; the sexual omnipotence of rock stars; the satanic predilictions of rock fans; and rock's high-voltage image of the modern Prometheus wielding an electric guitar. Pattison treats these myths as vulgar counterparts of their originals in refined Romantic art and offers a description and justification of rock's central place in the social and aesthetic structure of modern culture. --from publisher description |
| Analysis |
Rock music |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 239-257 |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects.
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Music, Influence of.
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Popular culture.
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism in music.
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| LC no. |
86012670 |
| ISBN |
0195038762 (alk. paper) |
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