Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution

Name: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Rolling Stones\u2019 Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the \u2018mature\u2019 sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs, Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence, decay, and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music \u2013 blues, country \u2013 that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with, and anticipated, the \u2018roots\u2019 moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more \u2018soft\u2019 and subdued as they embraced traditional styles, the.