Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction
• Issues in Theory: The musicological background
• Analytical approaches
• The aesthetic question
• The pop-classical split
• Intensional/extensional
• Listening strategy, style and function
• Analytic language
• Elements of an Analytical Musicology of Rock: Notation
• Instrumental roles
• Rhythmic organization
• The voice
• Melody
• Harmonic patterns and formal structures
• Open-ended repetitive patterns
• The open/closed principle
• Composing at the instrument
• Progressive Styles and Issues: Rock traditions
• The beginnings of progressive rock
• 'African American' influences
• Blues as pretext
• Blues as (con)text
• Improvisation in rock
• The jazz influence
• Art rock
• Listening to progressive rock
• An insular path
• Progressive folk
• Fantasy
• Conclusion: the progress of progressive rock
• A Profusion of Styles: Technology and texture
• Glam rock
• The punk aesthetic
• The punk diaspora
• Beyond progressive rock
• Hard rock and heavy metal
• Synthesizer rock
• Timbre and its gestural qualities
• Authenticity re-constituted: guitar bands
• Authenticity re-constituted: roots rock
• Britpop
• Meanings: Communication
• The mediation of self-expression
• Style and identity
• Meaning and style
• Authenticity and intertextuality
• Parody, pastiche and performance
• Stylistic development
• Conclusion
• Glossary of musicological terms
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index.