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8%OFFChristopher J. McDonald - Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown - 9780253221490 - V9780253221490
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Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown

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Description for Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown Paperback. Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. This book assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. It explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life - and its strategies for escape - reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties. Series: Profiles in Popular Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; AVGP; AVH; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.

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 musical ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Profiles in Popular Music
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221490
SKU
V9780253221490
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Christopher J. McDonald
Chris McDonald is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular music studies. He teaches at Cape Breton University.

Reviews for Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown
"As Chris McDonald correctly points out in Dreaming in Middletown, writing on rock music traditionally has tended to privilege the working class as the ultimate site of authentic expression. It is refreshing to encounter a scholarly book that finally takes up the challenge of interpreting popular music’s meanings in relation to its substantial, yet often neglected, middle class fan base. ... Read more

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