Progressive Rock and Psychedelic Coding in the Work of Jimi Hendrix
Reading Pop June 8, 2000 Sheila Whiteley
Abstract But like, the blues is what we’re supposed to dig…sometimes the notes might sound like it, but it’s a different scene between those notes. (Hendrix quoted in Pidgeon 1967: 2) Discussion of the 1960s generally identifies progressive rock as the prime organ of communication within the counter-culture. At the same time, musical analysis of the genre is an underdeveloped field of study,...