So... I've been browsing Amazon.com for a few print books that I could use for my research on psychedelic rock, and I think these might prove to be helpful to me:
- Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s by Nicholas Knowles Bromell (How psychedelic rock affected the 1960s period)
- Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock by Jim DeRogatis (How psychedelic rock progressed and evolved. Has it ended?)
- Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake (Follows the journey of Pink Floyd from the "psychedelic nights" of the 1960s to the '80s and '90s)
- Pink Floyd and Philosophy by George A. Reisch (Discusses specific themes and issues the group explored through music, and shows how the group's history affects our culture today)
Although I'm still in the process of finding academic articles, I think these books are a great start. I'll definitely be listening to some Pink Floyd albums to see if there are any common threads that are worth exploring. In addition, I will be making use of the group's official website: http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/. I'll also use MySpace to listen to Pink Floyd songs from different albums in order to get an idea about how the group evolved musically. Hopefully my research will shed some new light on both Pink Floyd and the genre of psychedelic rock in general.
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