Christopher J McDonald

Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class

Dreaming in Middletown

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

McDonald's wide-ranging musical and cultural analysis sheds light on one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221490
• ISBN-10: 0253221498
• Artikelnr.: 26570312

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. McDonald

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Anywhere But Here": Rush and Suburban Desires for Escape
2. "Swimming Against the Stream": Individualism and Middle-Class
Subjectivity in Rush
3. "The Work of Gifted Hands": Professionalism and Virtuosity in Rush's
Style
4. "Experience to Extremes": Discipline, Detachment, and Excess in Rush
5. "Reflected in Another Pair of Eyes": Representations of Rush Fandom
6. "Scoffing at the Wise?": Rush, Rock Criticism, and the Middlebrow
Notes
Works Cited
Selected Discography
Index