{"product_id":"psychedelic-popular-music-a-history-through-musical-topic-theory-musical-meaning-and-interpretation-9780253026453","title":"Psychedelic Popular Music: A History through Musical Topic Theory (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment  the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production  including music  visual art  graphic design  film  and literature. William Echard explores the historical development of psychedelic music and its various stylistic incarnations as a genre unique for its fusion of rock  soul  funk  folk  and electronic music. Through the theory of musical topicshighly conventional musical figures that signify broad cultural conceptsand musical meaning  Echard traces the stylistic evolution of psychedelia from its inception in the early 1960s  with the Beatles Rubber Soul and Revolver and the Kinks and Pink Floyd  to the German experimental bands and psychedelic funk of the 1970s  with a special emphasis on Parliament\/Funkadelic. He concludes with a look at the 1980s and early 1990s  touching on the free festival scene  rave culture  and neojam bands. Set against the cultural backdrop of these decades  Echards study of psychedelia lays the groundwork and offers lessons for analyzing the topic of popular music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666289090613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0253026458","price":44.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780253026453.jpg?v=1782427143","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/psychedelic-popular-music-a-history-through-musical-topic-theory-musical-meaning-and-interpretation-9780253026453","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}