Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author and editor of 14 books that span intellectual, cultural and literary history and the health humanities, including Neil Young: American Traveller (2015), Reframing 1968 (2018) and American Health Crisis (2021).

Generously expanded to survey the various vibrant prog scenes of the last decade, and to encompass an even wider definition of the fertile borderlands of the genre, this new edition of Beyond and Before offers a gloriously definitive guide to this most eclectic and ambitious form of popular music.

• Acknowledgements Illustration CreditsIntroductionProgressive Rock across Time and Genre Part 1: Before and During1. Extended Form 2. Roots of Progressive Rock 3. Out of the Garden 4. The Concept Album 5. Myth and ModernityPart 2: Transitions6. Progressive Fusion7. Performance and Visuality8. Social Critique9. Responses to Punk10. Neo-ProgressivePart 3: Beyond11. The Female Voice12. Post-Progressive 13. The Return of Folk 14. The Metal Progression15. The Concept beyond ConceptCoda: The Future NowDiscographyVideographyBibliographyIndex

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author and editor of 14 books that span intellectual, cultural and literary history and the health humanities, including Neil Young: American Traveller (2015), Reframing 1968 (2018) and American Health Crisis (2021).

Generously expanded to survey the various vibrant prog scenes of the last decade, and to encompass an even wider definition of the fertile borderlands of the genre, this new edition of Beyond and Before offers a gloriously definitive guide to this most eclectic and ambitious form of popular music.

• Acknowledgements Illustration CreditsIntroductionProgressive Rock across Time and Genre Part 1: Before and During1. Extended Form 2. Roots of Progressive Rock 3. Out of the Garden 4. The Concept Album 5. Myth and ModernityPart 2: Transitions6. Progressive Fusion7. Performance and Visuality8. Social Critique9. Responses to Punk10. Neo-ProgressivePart 3: Beyond11. The Female Voice12. Post-Progressive 13. The Return of Folk 14. The Metal Progression15. The Concept beyond ConceptCoda: The Future NowDiscographyVideographyBibliographyIndex

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author and editor of 14 books that span intellectual, cultural and literary history and the health humanities, including Neil Young: American Traveller (2015), Reframing 1968 (2018) and American Health Crisis (2021).

Generously expanded to survey the various vibrant prog scenes of the last decade, and to encompass an even wider definition of the fertile borderlands of the genre, this new edition of Beyond and Before offers a gloriously definitive guide to this most eclectic and ambitious form of popular music.

• Acknowledgements Illustration CreditsIntroductionProgressive Rock across Time and Genre Part 1: Before and During1. Extended Form 2. Roots of Progressive Rock 3. Out of the Garden 4. The Concept Album 5. Myth and ModernityPart 2: Transitions6. Progressive Fusion7. Performance and Visuality8. Social Critique9. Responses to Punk10. Neo-ProgressivePart 3: Beyond11. The Female Voice12. Post-Progressive 13. The Return of Folk 14. The Metal Progression15. The Concept beyond ConceptCoda: The Future NowDiscographyVideographyBibliographyIndex