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# Eric Casero On Rock History: A Dialectical Narrative
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/eric-casero-on-rock-history-a-dialectical-narrative/
- Published: 2010-06-28T11:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-06-28T11:58:00.000Z
- Description: Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, Eric Casero, author of Mental Machine Music: The Musical Mind in the Digital Age, has written another fantastic essay. In it, he. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/06/eric-casero-on-rock-history-a-dialectical-narrative.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Think Tank, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:59

Over at our sister blog [Music Think Tank](http://musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com), **Eric Casero**, author of [Mental Machine Music: The Musical Mind in the Digital Age](http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/123722-mental-machine-music-the-musical-mind-in-the-digital-age/P4?ref=hypebot.com), has written another fantastic essay. In it, he explores the **dialectical narrative** within the history of **Rock music**.

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**[From The Essay](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/rock-history-a-dialectical-narrative.html?ref=hypebot.com):**

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The history of **Rock music**, like that of virtually any prominent cultural form, is constituted by a series of **chaotic changes** during its relatively short lifespan. From our own particular historical vantage point, more than forty years after **rock’s “golden age,"** it is now possible to identify and ascribe cause to some of these **historical changes**. Of course, for **any rock fan**, the various narratives and value systems that make up rock culture are so familiar that **they have** assumed the shapes of **reproducible clichés**."

**Jonathan Ostrow**, co-founder of the **music blogging network** [**MicControl**](http://miccontrol.com/?ref=hypebot.com), has also written a post where he delves into the art of making a **press kit** and gives insight into **how to create a great one**. 

**[From The Essay](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/ar-tips-the-art-of-the-press-kit.html?ref=hypebot.com):**While you may be tempted to just use one or the other, it is very important that you **always create a physical press kit**. Not only are these more likely to be received by booking agents and a&r reps from record labels, but they can be **customized** in a way that the EPKs cannot, which is essential to making your press kit as **attractive**…