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The Rock Canon - Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Rock Canon - Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Canons are central to our understanding of our culture, and yet in
the last thirty years there has been much conflict and uncertainty
created by the idea of the canon. In essence, the canon comprises
the works and artists that are widely accepted to be the greatest
in their field. Yet such an apparently simple construct embodies a
complicated web of values and mechanisms. Canons are also
inherently elitist; however, Carys Wyn Jones here explores the
emerging reflections of values, terms and mechanisms from the
canons of Western literature and classical music in the reception
of rock music. Jones examines the concept of the canon as theorized
by scholars in the fields of literary criticism and musicology,
before moving on to search for these canonical facets in the
reception of rock music, as represented by ten albums: Bob Dylan's
Highway 61 Revisited, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, The Beatles'
Revolver, The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground &
Nico, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On,
The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., Patti Smith's Horses, The
Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Sex Pistols, and
Nirvana's Nevermind. Jones concludes that in the reception of rock
music we are not only trying to organize the past but also mediate
the present, and any canon of rock music must now negotiate a far
more pluralized culture and possibly accept a greater degree of
change than has been evident in the canons of literature and
classical music in the last two centuries.
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