{"id":30291,"date":"2025-11-10T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30291"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:27:43","slug":"30291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/30291\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK EVENT: What’s the Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to announce the imminent release of my third book, What’s the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/em><\/strong>. To celebrate its release, I’ll be appearing at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville NC on Tuesday, Nov 18 at 6pm. The event is FREE, and will be livestreamed so that anyone, anywhere can join in. Details are below. — bk<\/p>\n

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Bill Kopp presents What\u2019s the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/i>, with \"\"Patricia Furnish<\/h1>\n

Tuesday, Nov. 18 @ 6pm ET<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Join us in person at MALAPROP\u2019S BOOKSTORE or streaming live online when Asheville-based writer Bill Kopp presents his new book, What\u2019s the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/em>, in conversation with Malaprop’s bookseller Patricia Furnish.<\/b><\/p>\n

This is a free hybrid event with the option to attend in-store or online.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Click HERE<\/a><\/u><\/span> to register for the IN-STORE event.
\n\u2022 Click HERE<\/a><\/u><\/span> to register for the VIRTUAL event.<\/p>\n

Copies of What\u2019s the Big Idea<\/i> will be available for purchase, and Bill Kopp will be on hand to sign them.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/b>
\nAs 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\u2019s the Big Idea<\/em>, Bill Kopp explores 30 remarkable concept albums, drawing on new, firsthand interviews with the artists behind their creation. Artists include Pete Townshend, Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), Bob Mould (H\u00fcsker D\u00fc), Poe, the Avett Brothers, David Lowery (Camper van Beethoven), Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Todd Rundgren, Al Stewart, William Shatner and 20-plus others.<\/p>\n

Bill Kopp<\/b> is an Asheville, N.C.-based music journalist, speaker, collector, musician and lifelong music enthusiast. His writing has been featured in SPIN, <\/i>GRAMMY.com, Record Collector, Goldmine, Billboard, Shindig!, Trouser Press, Prog<\/i> and many other publications, including over 500 bylines in Mountain Xpress<\/i>. He hosted the popular monthly Music Movie Monday series at Grail Movie House and Music to Your Ears at Asheville Guitar Bar. He\u2019s the author of two other books on music: Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon<\/i> and Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave<\/i>. He blogs daily at blog.musoscribe.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Patricia Furnish<\/b> holds a Ph.D. in modern Native American history from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied the Society of American Indians and their political activism for U.S. citizenship for all Native peoples during the Progressive Era. She also has an MFA in documentary film and an MA in Spanish language and literature. Patricia hosts two book clubs at Malaprop’s: the Notorious HBC and Crime and Politics. You can learn more about Patricia at patriciafurnish.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Malaprop\u2019s Bookstore\/Cafe \u2022 55 Haywood St. \u2022 Asheville, NC 28801 \u2022 malaprops.com<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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