ABSTRACT

In this book, the glory days of progressive rock are relived in a series of insightful essays about the key bands, songwriters and songs that made prog-rock such an innovative style.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part 2|156 pages

Analytical Perspectives

chapter 3|26 pages

Pink Floyd's “Careful with That Axe, Eugene”

Toward a Theory of Textural Rhythm in Early Progressive Rock

chapter 4|19 pages

Progressive Rock As Text

The Lyrics of Roger Waters

chapter 5|10 pages

A Promise Deferred

Multiply Directed Time and Thematic Transformation in Emerson Lake and Palmer's “Trilogy”

chapter 6|22 pages

King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic

A Case of Convergent Evolution

chapter 7|24 pages

Tales of Change within the Sound

Form, Lyrics, and Philosophy in the Music of Yes

chapter 8|16 pages

Precarious Pleasures

Situating “Close to the Edge” in Conflicting Male Desires

chapter 9|36 pages

“Let Them All Make Their Own Music”

Individualism, Rush, and the Progressive/Hard Rock Alloy, 1976–77

part 3|42 pages

“Don't Dare Call Us 'Progressive”'

chapter 10|22 pages

Somebody Is Digging My Bones

King Crimsons “Dinosaur” as (Post) Progressive Historiography

chapter 11|18 pages

How Alternative Turned Progressive

The Strange Case of Math Rock