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Throughout the 1970s, no style of pop music was more controversial than progressive rock, and no progressive rock band was more controversial than Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The group’s imaginative fusion of rock, jazz, and classical motifs with cutting-edge technology, breathtaking virtuosity, and monumental stage shows made them hugely popular on both sides of the Atlantic — and gave rise to a host of detractors. In Endless Enigma, Edward Macan argues that ELP was an important contributor not only to progressive rock, but to 1970s rock in general. Besides a magisterial band biography, Macan provides a comprehensive critical examination of the band’s music and, in particular, its best albums, such as Brain Salad Surgery, which addressed technology's role in fostering societal alienation and totalitarianism. His analyses are so perceptive, precise, and detailed, that listening to the recordings in conjunction with his comments opens new avenues of thought about the band and its music.
- Sales Rank: #1482243 in Books
- Published on: 2006-07-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.90" w x 6.10" l, 2.50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 704 pages
About the Author
Edward Macan is a music educator, mallet percussionist, and pianist. He teaches at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
At Last! A Book that really looks at ELP properly - As musicians
By Mark D Burgh
Edward Macan, a musician, musicologist, and teacher, wrote an earlier assessment of progressive rock called "Rocking the Classics," which looked at the culture surrounding the genre in the United States. Now Macan presents prog rock readers with a comprehensive book that looks at the work of the proggiest rock band of the 1970's, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Simply put, this book is a must for anyone truly interested in ELP or prog rock. A step forward from his first book, Macan's ideas are explored, backed up, and explained in a clear way, giving those interested a total view of the musical activities of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer.
Endless Enigma begins an introduction that addresses all other books on prog: Bill Martin's and Kevin Holmes-Hudson's work especially, but also Paul Stumps' books as well. Macan answers these authors and other critics with passion and solid arguments, even if I am about 165 degrees politically from his stance. Readers new to this discourse might want to skip ahead the discussion of the band and their work.
You should be aware that Macan doesn't just give the usual "ideas" or wonky uniformed analyses one usually gets in books or discussions about rock music (i.e, the Inside Rock video series), he actually discusses the music itself. If the terms bitonality, ritornello, organum, and fugue are unfamiliar to you, you might want to have a music dictionary on hand. I would not say that you shouldn't read this book if you don't understand musical terminology, but if you do know some musicology, the text is a revelation.
I always loved ELP, and always knew their music was complex, challenging, and compelling, but I never understood why until now. Macan gives us the ELP method, or rightly, the Keith Emerson method that stood him well until he and the band deserted themselves after 1975. Fueled in part by boogie-woogie, Bach, Mussorgsky, Bartok, Bernstein, and other modernist composers, Keith Emerson carved out a unique sound from modified stride piano, percussive rythyms and conflicting keys, all the while using new sounds to do it. In the company of a great drummer, and an occasionally great bassist/guitarist, Emerson created a body of work that still moves people, at least people like Macan and Me, the former who writes a tome of this epic length, and me who practically sat down and read it from end to end, neglecting my familial duties to do so. I came away enlighted, even awed by Emerson's accomplishments.
Macan also takes on the "blues-orthodox" critics who never gave ELP a chance, a Quixotic battle, but a noble one. I don't know if it's worthwhile to give space to such proghaters as Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, and Robert Christagau, but Macan, all too fairly perhaps, does.
Macan reviews all the pre-ELP albums of each member in detail, and then all ELP albums in exhaustive detail, giving an honest critical appraisal at all times. Listening to the tracks he discussed was a great experience. This isn't some rock critic here, this a musician. The difference is some amateur telling about how great a movie is, and a director showing you how the effects and pacing were acheived. Really good stuff, and long overdue, if you want my opinion. An imporant aspect of The Endless Engima is that Macan doesn't lessen the music by dissecting it, but makes you appreciation for Emerson grow. Is it any wonder that rock critics who knew nothing about music hated ELP? The awesome thing to consider is that music this harmonically complex sold so many copies.
Macan makes some claims that are worth exploring, such as that ELP went into decline when Emerson began emulating Copland instead of Bartok; I think that Leonard Bernstein is more of a culprit than Copland here, but that's splitting hairs. I agree, on the whole, however. Macan also, in my view, rightly shows how ELP made a terrible mistake during the Works era (1977-78) and gives an alternative ELP album that would've saved the band. I put this album together, and he is right. You'll have to read the book to get the tracks and their order.
Macan also spends some time looking at rock Organ trios like Egg, Refugee, Ars Nova, and Le Orme, picking out representative albums of each band to analyze.
Get this book. Jump in. Prepare for a ride. Maybe it's my total immersion in this book, maybe it's because I love ELP, maybe its because I'm in middle-age and look back in nostalgia to a young love, but this book has emotional and philsophical force.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Very long, but every page is worthwhile!
By Lawrence J. King
I loved Macan's earlier book, "Rocking the Classics". Of all the books on progressive rock, this remains the best by far. It treats the music from a serious perspective - analyzing the key changes, the odd meters, and the science fiction and fantasy lyrics so common in progressive rock. In 300 pages, "Rocking the Classics" gives an in-depth analysis of the history and music of progressive rock.
Well, apparently Macan felt that if 300 pages is good, then 860 pages must be better. Yes, I said "860 pages". This is a book about a rock band, and it is eight hundred and sixty pages long. Yes, I know that the Amazon.com statistics claim this book is "only" 704 pages, but I have it right here in front of me, and this book has a 45-page introduction and then 815 pages of text.
Why am I focusing on the size of this book? Because it's the size of this book that sets its character. For example, in one early chapter the author discusses the Nice (Keith Emerson's band before he formed ELP). The author spends 37 pages discussing the music and the history of the Nice. Add to that the 26 pages about the first incarnation of King Crimson - and a long digression about the reasons for rock critics' passionate hatred for progressive rock - and 29 pages analyzing the output of thirteen other keyboard-based progressive rock trios - and finally, some interesting thoughts about the possible future of progressive rock - what you will find is that even if you DELETED everything about Emerson, Lake, and Palmer from this book, you'd still have a substantial book about progressive rock in general! Not the best prog book ("Rocking the Classics" still is the best), but a very good one.
But if you care about ELP, this is the BEST book that will ever be written about that band. Macan analyzes every single track on every single album - yes, even the Tracks We Don't Speak Of from the Unspeakable Album of 1978. He showers praise on the great parts, and doesn't hesitate to criticize the bad parts. And Macan's musicology is as brilliant as it was in his first book. Did you know that A-flat Major is the key in "Karn Evil 9" that represents the horrific dystopian future? You might not have known it, but you probably felt it: when Greg Lake sings "Rejoice, glory is ours..." in the Third Impression, you felt immediately that this wasn't a real victory. That's because the story is conveyed by the music, not just the lyrics. ELP's musical vocabularly draws heavily on classical music, and if you want to truly understand their music, this book is an invaluable guide. I highly recommend it.
Unless, of course, you have a blanket policy against buying eight-hundred-page books about rock bands.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A 'must' for any serious music library holding.
By Midwest Book Review
ENDLESS ENIGMA: A MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY OF EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER circumvents most music group coverages both in price and in scope: a $49.95 paperback packs in over 800 pages of material on not just the band itself, but the progress and history of rock music from the 70s to the 80s. Fans saw ELP as a break-taking fusion of rock, jazz and classical elements, while critics viewed them as bombastic and confrontational. ENDLESS ENIGMA's candid rock history uses the band's progress and intentions as a foundation for analyzing rock music's history as a whole and is a 'must' for any serious music library holding.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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