Rush, rock music and the middle class

McDonald, Chris, 1971-

Rush, rock music and the middle class dreaming in Middletown / [electronic resource] : Chris McDonald. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2009. - x, 255 p. - Profiles in popular music . - Profiles in popular music. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-244), discography (p. 246-247), and index.

"Anywhere but here" : Rush and suburban desires for escape -- "Swimming against the stream" : individualism and middle-class subjectivity in Rush -- "The work of gifted hands" : professionalism and virtuosity in Rush's style -- "Experience to extremes" : discipline, detachment, and excess in Rush -- "Reflected in another pair of eyes" : representations of Rush fandom -- "Scoffing at the wise?" : Rush, rock criticism, and the middlebrow.


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2014.
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Rush (Musical group)--Criticism and interpretation.


Rock music--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

ML421.R87 / M34 2009eb

782.42166092/2