Rock – Is That All There Is?

“The seedlings of pseudo-classicalism are scattering at bewildering speed. It’s the way that ‘rock’ has become sealed into its own historical bubble. Just as classical music can look back on its trajectory from Renaissance music to Serialism and assess its great composers and timeless masterpieces, so rock can point to its canon of superstars (now all festooned with Grammys and ennobled in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and its acknowledged archive of classic albums, and ask: ‘Is that it’?”