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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Understanding rock: essays in musical analysis / edited by
John Covach and Graeme M. Boone.

p. cm.
Includes index.

Contents. Progressive rock, "Close to the edge," and the
boundaries of style / John Covach -- After sundown: the Beach Boys'
experimental music / Daniel Harrison-- Blues transformations in the
music of Cream / Dave Headlam -- "Joanie" get angry: k. d. lang's
feminist revision / Lori Burns -- Swallowed by a song: Paul Simon's
crisis of chromaticism / Walter Everett -- Little wing: a study in musical
cognition / Matthew Brown -- Tonal and expressive ambiguity
in "Dark star" / Graeme M. Boone.

ISBN 0-19-510004-2; ISBN 0-19-510005-0 (pbk.)

1. Rock music -- History and criticism. 2. Rock music -- Analysis,
appreciation.

ML3534.U53 1997

781.66'0973--dc21 96-53475

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