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

By Sheila Whiteley

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
9780203398364, 9780203400159, 9780415068154, 020339836X, 0415068150, 0415068169, 9780415068161
LCC
ML3534 .W555 1992
Open Library ID
OL2027592M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1810547 bytes)
Pages
152\151
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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