In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music / Edition 1

by Susan Fast

Overview

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music. Through the music, imagery and discourse surrounding one of the most innovative and commercially successful rock bands ever, Susan Fast probes such issues as constructions of gender and sexuality, the creation of myth and the use of ritual, the appropriation of Eastern musics and the blues, the physicality of the music, and the use of the body in performance. The band's influence is examined through socially-situated musical analysis, as well as an ethnographic study of Led Zeppelin fans. Fast draws on academic and journalistic writing as well as a new interview with band member John Paul Jones. Specific pieces examined include "Dazed and Confused," "Kashmir," "Stairway to Heaven," and "Whole Lotta Love."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195147230
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Led Zeppelin and the Carnivalesque	3
1	Dazed and Confused: Intertextuality, Ritual, Gender	17
2	Stairway to Heaven: Myth, Epic, Ritual	49
3	iOver the Hills and Far Away: Difference and Representation	85
4	The Wanton Song: The Riff and the Body	113
5	Whole Lotta Love: Performing Gender	159
Appendix	Fan Questionnaire	203
	Notes	207
	Bibliography	231
	Discography/Videography	239
	Index	241