![]() In this articulate and nuanced investigation, Phil Rose reveals how the concept albums of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, in both their musical structure and lyrics, provide a space of prolonged thought and a mode of mediation by which people can come to see their own culture through outsider eyes. You don't have to be a Pink Floyd fan to appreciate what is accomplished in this study. With great precision and insight, Phil Rose provides us with an analysis that ranges from a detailed examination of popular music and lyrics as they relate to psychology and biography, aesthetic issues, and the realities of the recording industry, to broader issues concerning culture and counterculture, capitalism and commercialism, and the social impact of media and technology. Rob Bowman, Associate Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at York University, Grammy award-winning musicologist who founded popular music studies in Canada, and author of the celebrated book Soulsville U.S.A – The Story of Stax Records. The resulting book is extremely enlightening and will reward even the most ardent Pink Floyd/Rogers Water fan with its insights, permanently altering and enriching all subsequent listening to this extraordinary body of work. ![]() As is the case with the best scholarly explorations of complex material, Rose’s analysis continually spins off into revealing discussions of other works of art and larger societal issues that Waters alludes to or directly references in his and Floyd’s work. Phil Rose has undertaken a rigorously thorough, yet eminently readable, exegesis of the lyrics, music and, where appropriate, accompanying imagery from Pink Floyd’s and Water’s live performances. ![]() Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums will be required reading for any serious Pink Floyd fan. Eric McLuhan, Internationally-known and award-winning lecturer on communication and media, co-author Laws of Media (with Marshall McLuhan). The reader will be surprised to discover the intellectual depth which rock and roll can achieve while remaining good, solid music. Phil Rose reveals the meticulous attention that Pink Floyd-largely Roger Waters and David Gilmour-lavished on crafting the new art form in such albums as Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. rom the start the reader encounters an in-depth and assured investigation of the musical dimensions of this remarkable group. Rogers Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums represents a welcome and focused effort to examine something the author finds largely missing in popular commercial culture. Ultimately, it demonstrates how their words, sounds, and images work together in order to communicate one fundamental concern, which-to paraphrase the music journalist Karl Dallas-is to affirm human values against everything in life that should conspire against them. This book's analysis of album covers, lyrics, music and film makes use of techniques of literary and film criticism, while employing the combined lenses of musical hermeneutics and discourse analysis, so as to illustrate how sonic and musical information contribute to listeners’ interpretations of the discerning messages of these monumental musical artifacts. Encompassing the concept albums that the group released from 1973 to 1983, during Roger Waters’ final period with the band, chapters are devoted to Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983), along with Waters’ third solo album Amused to Death (1993). ![]() Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional ‘notation-centric’ musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended musical multimedia works of the classic British group Pink Floyd. ![]()
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