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Rhythm and Noise - An Aesthetics of Rock (Paperback, New)
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Rhythm and Noise - An Aesthetics of Rock (Paperback, New)
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You know it when you hear it, but can you say what it is? How you
know? Why you either love or loathe it? What makes it original or
derivative? To a music that tends to render its aficionados and
detractors equally inarticulate, Theodore Gracyk brings a rare
critical clarity. His book tells us once and for all what makes
rock music rock. A happy marriage of aesthetic theory and the
aesthetic practice that moved a generation, "Rhythm and Noise" is
the only thorough-going account of rock as a distinct artistic
medium rather than a species of popular culture.
What's in a name? "Rock" or "Rock 'n' Roll?" Grayck argues that
rock and roll is actually a performance style, one in a number of
musical styles comprising rock. What distinguishes rock, Gracyk
tells us, is how it is mediated by technology: The art is in the
recording. The lesson is a heady one, entailing a tour through the
history of rock music from Elvis Presley's first recordings in 1954
to Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994. Gracyk takes us through key
recordings, lets us hear what rock musicians and their critics have
to say, shows us how other kinds of music compare, and gives us the
philosophical background to make more than passing sense of the
medium. His work takes up the common myths and stereotypes about
rock, popular and academic, and focuses on the features of the
music that electrify fans and consistently generate controversy.
When Elvis came to town, did southern sheriffs say that rock was
barbaric and addictive? Well so did Theodor Adorno, in his way, and
Allan Bloom, in his, and Gracyk takes aim at this charge as it
echoes through the era of recorded music. He looks at what rock has
to do with romanticism and, even more, with commercialism. And he
questions the orthodoxy of making grand distinctions between
"serious" and "popular" art.
Keenly attuned to the nuances of music and of all the ways that we
can think about it, this exhilarating book tunes us in, as no other
has, to the complex role of rock in American culture.
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