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Rush and Philosophy book now available for pre-order

Mon, Nov 29, 2010@3:10PM | comments removed/disabled

Back in June of 2009 we learned that Open Court Publishing had put out a call for papers for a Rush and Philosophy book that they were planning to release as part of their popular Culture and Philosophy book series. Longtime Rush and philosophy author Durrell Bowman along with Jim Berti are the co-editors of the 288-page anthology which is slated for release in May of next year and is now available for pre-order at this link. The table of contents for the book - listing the authors and titles of all the essays it will contain along with section titles - can be seen at Durrell Bowman's website. The book is divided into 4 sections containing 16 essays with a complete title of Rush and Philosophy: Always Hopeful, Yet Discontent. Bowman has written a number of essays on Rush and philosophy including the following:

Let Them All Make Their Own Music: Individualism, Rush, and the Progressive Hard Rock Alloy, 1976-77 by Durrell Bowman, chapter nine of Progressive Rock Reconsidered, edited by Kevin Holm-Hudson, Oct. 2001

Textu(r)al Undercoding and the Music of the Rock Band Rush: String Quartets, Death Metal, Trip-Hop, and other Tributes, November 2002 (1 March 2003 version, 2004 update)

Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians' Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture, Dissertation, Ph.D. in Musicology, UCLA, 2003

The Culture and Philosophy book series are collections of essays by academic philosophers exploring the meanings, concepts, and puzzles within television shows, movies, music and other icons of popular culture. Since its inception in 2000 with Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing the series has published over 40 titles including Lord of the Rings and Philosophy, Star Wars and Philosophy, Bob Dylan and Philosophy and Pink Floyd and Philosophy. Other books on Rush and philosophy include 1998's Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush, 2002's A Simple Kind Mirror: The Lyrical Vision of Rush, and the recently released Rush, Rock Music and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown. Thanks to Mark Stench II for the heads up.

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