Space Between the Notes

<p><em>The Space Between the Notes</em> examines a series of relationships central to sixties counter-culture: psychedelic coding and rock music the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson the Beatles and the `Summers of love' Jimi Hendrix and hallucinogenics Pink Floyd and space rock. Sheila Whiteley combines musicology and socio-cultural analysis to illuminate this terrain illustrating her argument with key recordings of the time: Cream's <em>She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow</em> Hendrix's <em>Hey Joe</em> Pink Floyd's <em>Set the Controls For the Heat of the Sun</em> The Move's <em>I Can Hear the Grass Grow</em> among others.<br>The appropriation of progressive rock by young urban dance bands in the 1990s make this study of sixties and seventies counter-culture a timely intervention. It will inform students of popular music and culture and spark off recognition and interest from those that lived through the period as well as a new generation that draw inspiration from its iconography and sensibilities today.</p>