In the Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music

Name: In the Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music
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ISBN: 9780195147230

ISBN-10: 0195147235

ISBN-13: 9780195147230

Edition: 2001

Authors: Susan Fast

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This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music. Through the music, imagery and discourse surrounding one of the most innovative and commercially successful rock bands ever, Susan Fast probes such issues as constructions of gender and sexuality, the creation of myth and the use of ritual, the appropriation of Eastern musics and the blues, the physicality of the music, and the use of the body in performance. The band's influence is examined through socially-situated musical analysis, as well as an ethnographic study of Led Zeppelin fans. Fast draws on academic and journalistic writing as well as a new interview with band member John Paul Jones. Specific…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction: Led Zeppelin and the Carnivalesque



Dazed and Confused: Intertextuality, Ritual, Gender



Stairway to Heaven: Myth, Epic, Ritual



iOver the Hills and Far Away: Difference and Representation



The Wanton Song: The Riff and the Body



Whole Lotta Love: Performing Gender



Fan Questionnaire


Notes


Bibliography


Discography/Videography


Index