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''Rock and the Pop Narcotic'' is a 1991 book of popular music criticism by Joe Carducci. (Revised edition 1995.) ''Rock and the Pop Narcotic'' is perhaps the only book of popular music criticism that attempts to achieve a genuine aesthetic of rock music. Other works, such as Richard Meltzer's ''The Aesthetics of Rock'' or Simon Frith's ''Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music'', either focus on lyrical content or on the sociology of the music's listeners. ''Rock and the Pop Narcotic'' is both a critique of the sociological approach and a polemic in favour of the music's artistic qualities. ==The Book's Argument== Carducci seeks to distinguish rock music from pop music. He regards the rock as an "artistic form" and the pop music as, if anything, a marketing concept. Rock, in Carducci's view, is "rock and roll music made conscious of itself as a small band music". Unlike many writers on pop music, he has no truck with the idea that popularity is an index of quality; this attitude leads him to dismiss many major performers, such as U2 and Bruce Springsteen, as artistically null. On the other hand, his obsessive search for music that displays the qualities he regards as intrinsic to rock music leads him to champion such relatively obscure bands as Saint Vitus, Bloodrock, Sproton Layer and The Sylvia Juncosa Band. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rock and the Pop Narcotic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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