Rock: The Primary Text

Developing a Musicology of Rock

Allan Moore, Remy Martin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

322 Seiten

2018 | 3rd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6240-4 (ISBN)

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This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed, bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres, the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s, 'progressive' rock, punk rock, metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression, and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock.

Allan F. Moore is Professor Emeritus in Music at Surrey University and holds various Visiting Professorships. He is best known for work on the analysis and hermeneutics of popular music, particularly in major monographs (Rock: The Primary Text; Song Means), 70 academic papers and 70 (mainly BBC) broadcasts, and also in overseeing various edited collections (Bloomsbury's forthcoming Handbook of Rock Music Research, Ashgate's Critical Readings in Popular Musicology and The Library of Essays in Popular Music). Long-time editor of Popular Music, co-founder of Twentieth-Century Music, he is on various other advisory boards, and edits Routledge's newly commissioned series Music's Interdisciplines. Remy Martin is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds College of Music, where he lectures on a wide range of topics and music styles from analytic, cultural and philosophical perspectives. A graduate of the University of Surrey, Remy previously led popular music analysis and hermeneutics modules there. In his research Remy examines popular music listening experience, drawing from musicology, phenomenologically-oriented theories of embodiment, social theory, ecological psychology and ethics. After gaining early experience in punk and alternative rock bands, Remy went on to specialise in performance and has gigged as a rock, pop, folk and country guitarist.

1. Issues in theory 2. Elements of an analytic musicology of rock 3. Early rock 4. Progressive styles and issues 5. A profusion of styles 6. Recent rock 7. Meanings

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Zusatzinfo	90 Line drawings, black and white; 90 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-4724-6240-8 / 1472462408
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-6240-4 / 9781472462404
Zustand	Neuware