For Immediate Release		Reason to Rock:
Contact: Herb Bowie		Rock Music As Art Form
1-480-451-6895		by Herb Bowie
Press Information:		www.ReasonToRock.com
www.reasontorock.com/toc/press.html		Published 2001 – 2002

 

‘Reason To Rock’ Wins CPSnet ‘High In The Sky’ (tm) Award

Scottsdale, Arizona — ReasonToRock.com has been selected as a winner of the prestigious “High In The Sky Gold Seal(tm)” award from the CPSnet Web Awards program. The award was presented to Reason to Rock in May, 2002, based on the “nature of its content and for the quality of the design and implementation.” The award listing can be viewed at http://www.excellentsite.web.pt/highsky/win_may02.html#gold. The same site earlier won the “Historic and Cultural Heritage” award, and was selected as the “Site of the Week” by the Classic Rock section of About.com.

Reason to Rock is a new book about the aesthetics of Rock music that is being published via the World Wide Web. The goal of this book is to seriously evaluate rock music as an art form. It does so by first looking at the essential elements of rock — specific attributes that distinguish great Rock music from both other musical forms and from lesser examples of Rock.

The book then reviews these elements in action, through a detailed discussion of specific recordings. Some of these are well known, such as The Rolling Stones’ song, “Sympathy for the Devil.” Others are more obscure, such as Jesse Winchester’s recording, “Quiet About It.” All of the tracks are quite different in many ways, yet they consistently exhibit the essential elements.

Author Herb Bowie graduated from the University of Michigan in 1973 with a B.A. in English. Herb wrote Rock music reviews for the Michigan Daily while in Ann Arbor. He is also the author of the book, Why Die? A Beginner’s Guide to Living Forever.

 

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