Chain's Toward the Blues
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Publishing Details
Chain's Toward the Blues
By (Author) Professor Peter Beilharz
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic USA
2nd November 2023
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Musicians, singers, bands and groups
782.421660922
Physical Properties
Hardback
128
Width 127mm, Height 197mm
Description
Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam war and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Interesting times: the emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally. In this moment Chain, four regional white boys with jazz cred and blues licks recorded the classic Oz Blues single Black and Blue and its bedrock LP, Toward the Blues. Fifty years later it remains a monument in Australian rock history. Based on interviews, scholarly research and memoir this book tells the story and seeks to capture the magic of the moment. What makes an album really special, in this way
Author Bio
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University, China, and has previously held chairs at La Trobe, Harvard, Leeds and Curtin Universities. He has published thirty books including Socialism and Modernity (2009) and Intimacy in Postmodern Times (2020). He founded the journal Thesis Eleven in 1980, and played as support to Chain in 1971.
