[Popular Culture and Philosophy 57] • Rush and Philosophy by Berti, Jim -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Listen to My Music, and Hear What It Can Do PART I - To the Margin of Error

1 - Yesterday’s Tom Sawyers

Philosophical Moments Halloween Traditions, or, Are You Down with What You’re Up For? Lyrical Motifs Resistance Is Futile J-Wags, or, Are You Down with What You’re Up For? The Virtues of Virtual Run That by Me One More Time Interlude The Sign of the Three Saturday Night’s Alright, or, Are You Really Up for What You’re Up For? Aftermath: Not Down with What I Was Up For Processed Processes Houston, We Have a Problem, or, What Goes Up Must Come Down

2 - Barenaked Death Metal Trip-Hopping on Industrial Strings

The Pair of Most-Often-Covered Rush Songs Tribute Versions of “The Spirit of Radio” and “Tom Sawyer” A “Meta-Remix” of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” Coda

3 - The Groove of Rush’s Complex Rhythms

In the Heat of the Beat and the Lights Philosophies of Musical Time Musical Time and Individualism Rush Grooves Close Listening and Move-Your-Body Rock The Heart and Mind United

4 - Nailed It!

Rush’s Aesthetic of Replicability Dealt a Losing Hand Taking Individualism to Extremes Technical Display Is Primary Class Bias of Rush’s Critics Celebration of Diligent Effort Non-Mainstream Whiteness No Heart to Lie

5 - Can’t Hear the Forest for the Cave?

I Have Not Left This Cave for Days Now We Are Merely Players Test for Echo He’s Adept at Adaptation Respond, Vibrate, Feedback, and Resonate He’s Got to Make His Own Mistakes

PART II - The Ebb and Flow of Tidal Fortune

6 - Rush’s Revolutionary Psychology

Archaic Looks at Thought and Mood Thoughts Alter Perception Recognize the Real Thing Counterexamples Show Don’t Tell Let It Go Do What You Love Enjoy These Moments

7 - Rush’s Metaphysical Revenge

Rush Judgments When a Tree Falls in a Forest Drummers in (Geek) Heaven Aristocrats and Critics A Farewell to Kinds Smashing Critics’ Pumpkins

8 - Ghost Riding the Razor’s Edge

Seems We’ll Never See the Sun A Thinking Man’s Band You Can Choose . . . Christ, What Have You Done? I Do Not Know Who I Am Blame Is Better to Give than Receive Brought Up to Believe Each of Us, a Cell of Awareness A Spirit Breaking Free The Time Is Now Again Let Your Heart Be the Anchor and the Beat of Your Own Song

9 - Honey on the Rim of the Larger Bowl

Such a Lot of Pain on This Earth Why Such Different Fortunes and Fates? Our Better Natures Seek Elevation You Can Call Me Faithless . . . The Songs and Stories of Vanished Times Hope

10 - How We Value a Gift Beyond Price

Signs and Signals The Big Money Value Without a Price Tag Time Stand Still Concert Hall I Can Hold the Future in My Virtual Hand Infinity, the Star that Would Not Die The Words of the Profits are Written on the Studio Walls Tallying the Total

11 - Free Wills and Sweet Miracles

Peart Discussing No Small Matter Assume Free Will, Choose Autonomy and Responsibility Drag Your Dreams into Existence I Must Help My Mother Stand Up Straight Experience Slips Away Fate Is Just the Weight of Circumstances What Is the Meaning of This? Sweet Miracles of (Secular) Faith, Hope, and Love

PART III - I Want to Look Around Me Now

12 - A Heart and Mind United

Heart and Mind Divided The Gods of Love and Reason Battle It Out Blinded by Apollo Passion and Reason Find a Balance A Single, Perfect Sphere

13 - More than They Bargained For

“Subdivisions” (Signals, 1982) “Countdown” “Distant Early Warning” “Red Sector A” “The Body Electric” Interlude: Influences, 1984–86 “The Big Money” “Manhattan Project” “Mystic Rhythms” “Force Ten” (Hold Your Fire, 1987) “Time Stand Still” “I Want to Look Around Me Now”

14 - Contre Nous

How Does Music Mean? Evoking Other Places Evoking Outer Space Evoking Evil Listen to My Music, and Hear What It Can Do

15 - The Inner and Outer Worlds of Minds and Selves

Inner and Outer Worlds Pain and Internal Experience Ludwig Wittgenstein Tries to Understand Pain Does Rush Offer a Way Out?

16 - Cruising in Prime Time

Getting Help from Roland Barthes Catch the Spit As the Wheels of Time Just Pass You By Cruising in Prime Time “Tom Sawyer”—The Distracted Audience Counterparts: Lee’s Voice and Peart’s Drums

PART IV - The Blacksmith and the Artist

17 - What Can This Strange Device Be?

I’m Working All the Time Artisanship versus Mass Production in “2112” Handle with Kid Gloves Video Vertigo Technology . . . High Emotion Detector All This Machinery Making Modern Music Straining the Limits of Machine and Man

18 - Enlightened Thoughts, Mystic Words

Rush’s Love Affair with Eighteenth-Century Revolutions Living (Mostly) for Yourself Spirits and Visions Humanism Needs Its Evangelists, Too

19 - Rush’s Libertarianism Never Fit the Plan

Let Them All Make Their Own Music With Acknowledgment to the Genius of Ayn Rand And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth Just Think about the Average We’ve Taken Care of Everything, the Words You Read, the Songs You Sing Just Think of What My Life Might Be There’s Something Here that’s as Strong as Life

20 - Neil Peart versus Ayn Rand

Dystopias “2112”—Rush Hardly Rand-y Peart

21 - How Is Rush Canadian?

CanCon Anglo-Americanisms Parks and Trees (1975–78) Later Rush (1996-2004) Outro

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