American Rock and the Classical Music Tradition: A special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review [Paperback] Review

First of all: I am not dealing professionally in any way with music and I am not a music theory student either. However, I find the article 'Listening to Zappa' by Professor Jonathan W. Bernard (which takes circa one third of this volume) as much entertaining as insightful. Like me, Mr. Bernard is a Zappa fan from his early youth on, and in spite of all the theoretical analysis, one can feel that the author truly likes Zappa's music and even appreciates his sense of (often purely musically expressed) absurd humour.
So if you are seriously into Frank Zappa and his music (and his musical parody, of course), this book is a must!

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This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture.Fascinating philosophical and analytical issues arise as a picture of the rich historical relationship between the two media emerges.
John Covach is associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He has published numerous articles on rock music, twelve-tone music and theory, and the philosophy of music.He is co-editor, with Graeme Boone, of Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis (Oxford UP, 1997).
Walter Everett is associate professor of music of Music at the University of Michigan.He has published numerous articles on rock music, art song, opera, Schenkerian theory, and other topics.He is author of The Beatles as Musicans: Revolver through the Anthology (O

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