The triumph of vulgarity: rock music in the mirror of Romanticism.

From: National Review | Date: August 14, 1987| Author: Wooten, John | Copyright information

The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism

by RobertPattison (Oxford, 280 pp., $19.95)

THIS IS THE most brilliant study yetwritten of the modern phenomenon of rock music, although Robert Pattison attempts at the end of his book to avoid the logic of his own totally convincing analysis of what makes rock the extremely dangerous cultural force it is. But despite Pattison's intentions, this book will provide the critics of rock music with t...

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