The aesthetics of rock

Meltzer, R. [Richard] The aesthetics of rock. First edition in paperback. New York City: Something Else Press Inc., 1970. Paperback, Good. Illustrated card covers, with light shelfwear to edges, creases to corners, reading crease along the spine. Binding strong. Light foxing to edges of endpapers and prelims. 346pp., central section of b/w plates. Light tanning to edges of the page block. Contents clean and bright. Richard Meltzer (born May 10, 1945) wrote the book between 1965 and 1968, it was first published in 1970 by Something Else Press. It is one of the first major works of rock-music criticism and analysis. He wrote it as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and as a graduate student at Yale University, from which he was, as he relates in his foreword, "kicked out toot-sweet on my rock-roll caboose" for writing papers with rock-music themes for philosophy classes. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…