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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
History & Context
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 5|10 pages
A Promise Deferred
Multiply Directed Time and Thematic Transformation in Emerson Lake and Palmer's “Trilogy”
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