The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture

di Sheila Whiteley (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1992

The Space Between the Notes examines a series of relationships central to sixties counter-culture: psychedelic coding and rock music, the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson, the Beatles and the `Summers of love', Jimi Hendrix and hallucinogenics, Pink Floyd and space rock. Sheila Whiteley combines musicology and socio-cultural analysis to illuminate this terrain, illustrating her argument with key recordings of the time: Cream's She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow, Hendrix's Hey Joe, Pink Floyd's Set the Controls For the Heat of the Sun, The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow, among others. The appropriation of progressive rock by young urban dance bands in the 1990s make this study of sixties and seventies counter-culture a timely intervention. It will inform students of popular music and culture, and spark off recognition and interest from those that lived through the period as well as a new generation that draw inspiration from its iconography and sensibilities today.

• Autore: Sheila Whiteley
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 1992
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 150 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 385 gr.
• EAN: 9780415068154

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