Rush, rock music, and the middle class
Subtitle: dreaming in Middletown
By: Chris McDonald.
Series: Profiles in popular music
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253354082; 9780253221490
Subjects: Rush (Musical group) -- Criticism and interpretation; Rock music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Anywhere but here" : Rush and suburban desires for escape; title: "Swimming against the stream" : individualism and middle-class subjectivity in Rush; title: "The work of gifted hands" : professionalism and virtuosity in Rush's style; title: "Experience to extremes" : discipline, detachment, and excess in Rush; title: "Reflected in another pair of eyes" : representations of Rush fandom; title: "Scoffing at the wise?" : Rush, rock criticism, and the middlebrow.