Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class Dreaming in Middletown

Name: Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class Dreaming in Middletown
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ISBN: 9780253221490

ISBN-10: 0253221498

ISBN-13: 9780253221490

Edition: 2009

Authors: Christopher J. McDonald

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Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life-and its strategies for escape-reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties, while its performances manifested the dialectic in prog rock between discipline and austerity, and the desire for spectacle and excess. The band's reception reflected the internal struggles of the middle class over cultural status. Critics cavalierly dismissed, or apologetically praised, Rush's music for its middlebrow leanings. McDonald's wide-ranging…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.46" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English