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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.