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«One Size Fits All», 1975
Summary
This monograph is the first investigation of rock as a musical and style phenomenon as far as Russian musicol
concerned. Rock-music and its style trends are considered here in a wide context of modern culture, in the cont
transition from counter-cultural orientation to pan-cultural in particular. The intensification of artistic qualities i
reflected in style thinking as well as in diversity of cultural-style and genre contacts. The connection of rock
surrounding world, with the music of European tradition in particular is the main idea of the book. It is studied
different aspects from the typology of style trends to compositional structures and musical language.
First the author investigates non-commercial rock classics and contemporary music. Rock is considered in contrast
with entertaining variety art. It was necessary to undertake a great and purposeful selection of a musical material t
single out talented and original examples of rock that were the best to incarnate the idea of a cultural dialogue a
widening of genre-style boundaries (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes, Van D
Generator, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, etc.).
The process of cultural, genre and style integration is especially active in art-rock. It forms different sty
(«European-like», vanguard, ballad, Oriental, «Renaissance», electronic and other art-rock modifications). Style
thinking is realized here as a collective creation of dialogue forms. The style individualization process distinguishes
rock from pop-variety art, the principle of homogenization of which became its law.
The book includes an Introduction, five chapters and the Conclusion. The Introduction outlines a range of problems and
is devoted to substantiation of the investigation ground and the review of scientific works in this sphere. The firs
chapters provide a review of historical material. Prehistory of the contact of genre sphere of music is given in the
chapter. Realization of this contact in jazz (in fusion-jazz in particular) is given special attention. The basic st
«artization» of rock, its leading trends as well as the creative activity of the greatest representatives of art-rock, ar
defined in detail in the second chapter. Chapters 3 & 4 are of theoretical trend. They make clear the
compositional-structural and mode-harmonic aspects. Chapter 5 generalizes the observations from the point of view
style and style contacts and typology of contacts as well as gives a detailed analysis of some methods of work wit
models (assimilation, stylization, parody, etc.). A special type of style in rock-music (collective-individual) is noted
here. The way to a wide musical sphere is undertaken in the Conclusion. A universal contradiction betw
structure-forming style tendency and an entropy homogenized one become the object of attention here. T
preponderance of the second tendency is connected with a deep «intonation» crisis that contemporary music
experiences now. The integrated, hybrid, the «third» and other forms become one of the ways out of this crisis. Many of
these are considered in this monograph.