Progressive Rock Reconsidered

Contents

• Acknowledgments. Introduction.
• Part I . History and Contents.
• 1. Progressive Rock and the Inversion of Musical Values.
• 2. The American Metaphysical Circus of Joseph Byrd's United States of America.
• Part II . Analytical Perspectives
• 3. Pink Floyd's 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene' (ca. 1968-1969): A Study of Genre, Texture, Medium and Structure.
• 4. Progressive Rock as Text: The Lyrics of Roger Waters.
• 5. A Promise Deferred: Multiply-Directed Time and Thematic Transformation in Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 'Trilogy'.
• 6. King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic: A Case of Convergent Evolution.
• 7. Tales of Change within the Sound: Compositional Form, Lyrics and Philosophy in the Music of Yes.
• 8. Precarious Pleasures: Situating 'Close to the Edge' in Conflicting Male Desires.
• 9. 'Let Them All Make Their Own Music': Individualism, Rush, and the Progressive Hard Rock Alloy, 1976- 1977.
• Part III . 'Don't Dare Call Us "Progressive"': Post Prog and other Legacies
• 10. Somebody is Digging My Bones: King Crimson's 'Dinasaur' as (post)Progressive Historiography.
• 11. How Alternative Turned Progressive: The Strange Case of Math Rock. Contributing Authors. Index.