'What's The Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums' by Bill Kopp (Paperback)

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As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it into music is the ideal means of communicating thoughts and feelings to others. And the concept-album form is a logical extension of that storytelling impulse, often writ large. It allows the writer to tackle bigger themes, more involved story lines, more finely textured characters and ideas.

In the pages of WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA, author Bill Kopp explores 30 remarkable concept albums, drawing on new, firsthand interviews with the artists behind their creation.

In the pages of WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA, you'll find discussions of albums released between 1967 and 2024. Some albums will be quite familiar; others may be completely unknown to you. Inevitably, Bill Kopp's survey includes plenty of progressive rock, but it also ropes in pop, new wave (of a sort), indie rock, hip hop and even comedy.