In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensivetheoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a conventional Academics such as music theorists (esp. 20th century specialists), musicologists (esp. 20th century specialists),ethnomusicologists sited in techno-scientific cultures, sound studies scholars, historians of the German postwar era, scholars in science and technology studies, composers of electronic music, literature scholars (esp. mid-century avant-garde specialists), visual art scholars (esp. mid-centuryavant-garde specialists); Undergraduate students in seminars/upper divi sionelectives focused on electronic music, or the history/analysis of later 20th century music; public/general readers interested in the Cold War/mid-century culture. Iverson |f Jennifer |i J. |s au |t Assistant Professor ofMusic |a University of ChicagoJENNIFER IVERSONA0000031008|w 6.125 |h 9.2560 illustrations320Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde04/01/2019BATCH2 |D 2018 11 22105.00OUP USA0.0027/12/2018MD03/2020108.950.00009999 |d NO RESTRICTIONSMUS105.00 |c US $0 powerful musical mechanisms whichhave made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape. | The Musical Language of Rock by David Temperley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters