Progressive Rock bibliography
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The Progressive Rock Bibliography (or Progbibliography) is a Progressive-Rock-Website. It is currently the largest bibliography on Progressive Rock.
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[edit] History
The idea arose from a list of books for a private collection, that was published online in summer 2001. Thanks to numerous Progressive-Rock-listeners around the world it rapidly grew to be a large bibliography that tries to present the published literature as complete as possible in different categories. It is used by scientists and authors worldwide. Contacting the webmaster is possible. The Website is updated about twice a month.
[edit] Content
The bibliography site currently (early 2007) lists bibliographical data to 700 publications (books and articles) on Progressive Rock/Art Rock. This contains texts by Rock journalists (mainly band-biographies) and musicological texts. Songbooks, usually only fragmentarily documented, are added as far as possible. The Progressive Rock Bibliography nevertheless is the largest list of Prog songbooks. Fanzine features and articles are excluded. All books and aticles are documented by author's name, title, subtitle, place, year and ISBN, supplemented by links to online-texts where possible. Missing information is marked, the website partly relies upon contribution from its readers. However, especially non-German, -English, -French and -Italian publications are well documented. This also applies to the Japanese literature. Even yet unpublished texts are mentioned, as far as the webmaster is in contact with authors.
There is also a large list of literary and philosophical references in Progressive Rock lyrics (see intertextuality). This includes self-evident sources like the Bible or Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", but also remote texts like the shastric scriptures from India (Yes's "Tales from Topographic Oceans") or "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Edward Plunkett, 18. Baron Dunsany (Glass Hammer's "The inconsolable secret").
The website features texts about the "big five", Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Genesis, but also includes Bands from the edge of Progressive Rock. Procol Harum, Mike Oldfield, Jon Lord and The Moody Blues listerature is documented, Pink Floyd remain excluded. Moreover, the website lists text about bands that don't belong to the Progressive Rock genre, but had or have members who also played in Progressive Rock bands like Badfinger or Asia.
[edit] Structure
The homepage consists of an introduction and a complete and comprehensive (partly commented) list. The same list - minus the comments - exists as a printer friendly version. There are the thematically sorted lists: Prog in general, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Canterbury, artists' books, The Nice/ELP/Asia, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Asia/Brian Eno/King Crimson/UK, Marillion/Fish, The Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Van der Graaf Generator and Yes/Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe/Asia/Vangelis/Badfinger. Moreover, there is a Young persons' guide, a desiderata list, a list of literary references in Prog, as well as songbooks and link lists.
