Rock: The Primary Text

Name: Rock: The Primary Text
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138592100
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Developing a Musicology of Rock

By Allan Moore and Remy Martin

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

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This thoroughly revised third edition of Rock: The Primary Text, co-authored by Allan F. Moore and Remy Martin, delves into the sounds of rock music as its primary text. It incorporates new material on rock music theory, style changes, and the hermeneutic method, discussing a wide range of musicians from early beat and rhythm and blues styles to punk, metal, and progressive rock. The book also explores rock music as a medium of self-expression and examines its evolving musical styles.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of musicology, especially those interested in rock music theory and history.

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This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change, and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012).

An even larger array of musicians is discussed, bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here.

The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres, the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s, 'progressive' rock, punk rock, metal, and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression, and the relationship of this to changing musical styles.

Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock.

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138592100

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 90 Line drawings, black and white; 90 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 684g

Pages: 322

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Allan Moore Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Remy Martin Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

About the Author

Allan F. Moore is Professor Emeritus in Music at Surrey University and holds various Visiting Professorships. He is best known for work on the analysis and hermeneutics of popular music, particularly in major monographs (Rock: The Primary Text; Song Means), 70 academic papers and 70 (mainly BBC) broadcasts, and also in overseeing various edited collections (Bloomsbury's forthcoming Handbook of Rock Music Research, Ashgate's Critical Readings in Popular Musicology and The Library of Essays in Popular Music). Long-time editor of Popular Music, co-founder of Twentieth-Century Music, he is on various other advisory boards, and edits Routledge's newly commissioned series Music's Interdisciplines.

Remy Martin is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds College of Music, where he lectures on a wide range of topics and music styles from analytic, cultural and philosophical perspectives. A graduate of the University of Surrey, Remy previously led popular music analysis and hermeneutics modules there. In his research Remy examines popular music listening experience, drawing from musicology, phenomenologically-oriented theories of embodiment, social theory, ecological psychology and ethics. After gaining early experience in punk and alternative rock bands, Remy went on to specialise in performance and has gigged as a rock, pop, folk and country guitarist.

Rock: The Primary Text