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The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism. Robert Pattison

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The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism Robert Pattison. djvu ebook Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English Page: 303 ISBN: 0195038762, 9780195038767

From Library Journal

This is a provocative, opinionated study about the origins of rock and about rock as an idea. The author sees rock as grounded in the ideology of the American Revolution and as an extension of 19th-century Romanticism. He finds rock foreshadowed in Shelley and in the pantheism of Whitman. At the same time, he dwells on the vulgarity of rock (and youth, democracy, and popular culture), though he admits rock brings intense pleasure to many. He considers rock devoid of logic and perceives the lyrics as "trite, obscene, and idiotic." Nevertheless he has produced a logical critical study, which, for all its paradoxes, many will find valid and stimulating. Recommended for academic collections. Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Inc. Amherst, Mass.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"This is the most brilliant study yet written of the modern phenomenon of rock music."--National Review

"An articulate elucidation of rock 'n' roll as the heir apparent to 19th-century romantic pantheism.... Makes a convincing case for rock as the central aesthetic manifestation of our culture.... Pattison writes amusingly and his rock 'n' roll fever is infectious."--Kirkus Reviews. "A provocative, opinionated study about the origins of rock and about rock as an idea."--Library Journal