Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978

by Bill Martin

In the early seventies, King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and many others brought forth a series of adventurous and visionary works, often of epic length. Responding both to the new possibilities in rock music opened up by Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as well as to the countercultural politics and aesthetics of the late sixties, these musicians applied consummate instrumental and compositional skill to transgressing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081269368X
• ISBN13: 9780812693683
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"