The Triumph of Vulgarity : Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism.
Title:
The Triumph of Vulgarity : Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism.
Author:
Pattison, Robert.
ISBN:
9780195365030
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock and Romantic Pantheism -- CHAPTER TWO: I Am White, but O, My Soul Is Black: The Origins of Rock in the Romantic Primitive -- CHAPTER THREE: Dreams of Elysian: Blues, Folk, and Rock Pantheism -- CHAPTER FOUR: I Formulate Infinity: Feeling, Self, and Growth in Rock's Forever Now -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Road of Vulgar Excess: Conventions of Rock Selfhood -- CHAPTER SIX: The Zombie Birdhouse and the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle: Rock and the World -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Man and God at Rock 'n Roll High School: Popular Culture and Its Critics -- CHAPTER EIGHT: De la Musique Avant Toute Chose: A Rock Aesthetic -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In this thinker's guide to rock and roll, Robert Pattison contends that rock music mirrors the tradition of 19th-century Romanticism. The music is vulgar, he notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romanticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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