Experiencing Rush: A Listener's Companion

Experiencing Rush: A Listener's Companion

Few bands have proven as long-standing and experimental as the Canadian rock act Rush, which has successfully survived and adapted like few others by continuing to work in an album-oriented â€œprogressive hard rockâ€ style. Rush bridged its original blues-rock style with progressive rock and heavy metal in the 1970s, explored new wave and synth rock in the 1980s, and then created a new kind of alternative hard rock in the 1990s and 2000s. Throughout its career Rush has stubbornly remained musically and lyrically individualistic. The band created dozens of albums over its four decadesâ€”with 45 million soldâ€”and embarked on major concert tours for millions of fans across the globe.The bandâ€™s music appeals not just to mainstream rock fans but to those musicians who admire the structural complexity of its music.

In Experiencing Rush: A Listenerâ€™s Companion, music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers through Rushâ€™s long career, explaining through the artful combination of biography, history, and musical exegesis how to listen to this unique act. From Rushâ€™s emergence as an early blues-rock power trio of guitar, bass, and drums into the godfathers of progressive hard rock, Bowman marks the bandâ€™s first breakthrough with its landmark, sci-fi/individualist album 2112. From there, readers explore Rushâ€™s movement from â€œprog rockâ€ extended compositions into shorter, potential-radio-play â€œpost-progâ€ songs, leading to Rushâ€™s most successful album Moving Pictures in 1981. In its later career, Rush adventurously mixed progressive hard rock and music technology, generating a new power trio sound that featured further stylistic evolutions. As Bowman makes clear, it is the bandâ€™s stalwart path and many influences on fans, musicians, and others that resulted in Rushâ€™s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

Rush is a legendary group, and Experiencing Rush is specially written for music fans seeking a deeper look into the bandâ€™s work, as well as for new listeners ready to discover the unique and diverse sound of one of rockâ€™s greatest acts.
Country USA
Brand Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer Rowman & Littlefield
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate 2014-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781442231306

Country	USA
Brand	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate	2014-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781442231306

Experiencing Rush: A Listener's Companion

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