| Description |
1 online resource (x, 255 pages). |
| Series |
Profiles in popular music |
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Profiles in popular music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-244), discography (pages 246-247}, and index. |
| Contents |
"Anywhere but here" : Rush and suburban desires for escape -- "Swimming against the stream" : individualism and middle-class subjectivity in Rush -- "The work of gifted hands" : professionalism and virtuosity in Rush's style -- "Experience to extremes" : discipline, detachment, and excess in Rush -- "Reflected in another pair of eyes" : representations of Rush fandom -- "Scoffing at the wise?" : Rush, rock criticism, and the middlebrow. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 dismi. |
| Subject |
Rush (Musical group) -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rush (Musical group) (OCoLC)fst00595372
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rock.
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Rock music. (OCoLC)fst01099204
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McDonald, Chris, 1971- Rush, rock music and the middle class. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2009 9780253354082 (DLC) 2009019548 (OCoLC)313659250 |
| ISBN |
9780253004048 (electronic bk.) |
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0253004047 (electronic bk.) |
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