ISBN:
9781032340739
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9781032340777
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 449 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
Series Statement:
Routledge music handbooks
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Rezeption
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Heavy Metal
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Progressive Rock
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Literatur
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Progressive rock music / History and criticism
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Heavy metal (Music) / History and criticism
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Music and literature
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Rock progressif / Histoire et critique
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Heavy metal (Musique) / Histoire et critique
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Musique et littérature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Literatur
;
Rezeption
;
Progressive Rock
;
Heavy Metal
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes. The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections: from ancient times to the modern world, from children's literature to epic poetry, from mythology to science fiction, and from esoteric fantasy to harsh political criticism. The musical treatments of these literary materials span the continents from South and North America through Europe and Asia. The collection presents critical perspectives on the enduring and complex relationships between words and music as these are expressed in progressive rock and metal. The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Reflections on The Literary Imagination in Progressive Rock and Metal / Chris Anderton and Lori Burns -- Part I. Theoretical Frameworks. More Erudite than Your Average Rock Band : Progressive Rock and Literature / Andy Bennett ; Cross-pollinations : Progressive Rock and Science Fiction / Chris Anderton ; So Hard to Find in My Cosmic Mind : Hippie Spirituality and Jon Anderson's Lyrics / John Covach ; "Everything in the lower world has its root in higher worlds": Rock and Religion in Jon Anderson's Chagall Songs / Jonathan C. Friedman ; Poets and Prophets : The Lyricists of Early Progressive Rock from Self-Creation to Parody / Leonardo Masi ; The Origin of Progressive Metal Lyrics in Black Sabbath's Music / Nolan Stolz ; The Dystopian Impulse in Prog : Cross-cutting Thread/ts in Dystopian Concept Albums / Marcel Bouvrie
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II. Literary Adaptations. Time Travel Through Tolkien / Sarah Hill and Jon Gower ; Into the Storm -- Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth and the Tolkien Reception in German Metal music / Martin Ringsmut ; Storytelling Strategies in Camel's Music Inspired by The Snow Goose / Ryan Blakeley ; Musical Evocations of the Uncanny in David Bedford's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Kevin Holm-Hudson ; Royal Hunt's Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and the Interplay Between Narrativity and Western Art Music / Aleksandar Golovin ; Neo-progressive Rock and Children's Literature : Stories of Innocence and Experience in Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and Pendragon's The Masquerade Overture / Marion Brachet ; Kamelot's Adaptation of Goethe's Faust : Tragic Subjectivities in Power Metal Lori Burns
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III. Mythologies and Folklores. Singing Minstrels, Recorders, and The Carnivalesque : Gentle Giant's Medievalist Imagination /Richard Worth ; "We are The Varangian Guard" : Musical Rhetoric and Literary Reference in Turisas's Varangian Way Albums / Milan K. Schaller ; "Enuma Elish is Re-written" : A Quantitative Survey of Mesopotamian Mythology's Reception in Metal Lyrics / János Fejes ; Keeper of the Seven Keys : Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal / Grigorios Mathioudakis ; "Legend Never Dies" : Mythology and Canon of Literature in Symphony X's Underworld / Andrzej Mądro ; Recovery, Escape, and Consolation : Uriah Heep's The Magician's Birthday as Fairy-Story / Joshua B. Tuttle ; "A Maze with Very Minimal Guiding Light, Thematically Slithering Between Worlds" : Black Metal, Progressive Rock, and Ambivalent Constellations of Imagination in Remmirath's Shambhala / Vril Saucers Owen Coggins
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV. Storyworlds. Narrative Worldmaking as Social Commentary in Pink Floyd's Animals / Alexander C. Harden ; Invisible Nonsense: Zero the Hero's Journey in Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy / Jay Keister ; The Edge of this Airfield: Ballardian Liminal Spaces in the Music of Trevor Horn / Jacob Holm-Lupo ; Finding Progressive Rock in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure / Ivan Tan ; Dream Theater's The Astonishing: The Unification of the Literary and the Musical / Ciro Scotto ; Storytelling, Narrative, and Coherence in Avatar's Feathers and Flesh -- In His Own Words (2017) Elise Girard-Despraulex ; The Hauntology of Story, Gameplay, Images, and Music : Hajo Müller, Steven Wilson, Jess Cope, and Ovosonico's Last Day of June / Patrick Armstrong and Lori Burns
Description / Table of Contents:
Part V. Subjectivities and Identities. The New Jerusalem : Genesis and Englishness / David Pattie ; Us & Them : Dystopias, Resistance, and Literary Influences in Roger Waters' Work (1968-2019) / Philippe Gonin ; Las Alturas de Machu Picchu : Los Jaivas, Progressive Rock, and the Unmooring of Latin American Identity / Israel Holas Allimant and Sergio Holas Véliz ; "La Libre Creación" : Exploring Narrativity in the Progressive Rock of Northwest Spain during the Spanish Transition to Democracy / Eduardo Garcia Salueña ; Resonating Authenticities : Chinese Progressive Rock Lyrics as Socio-Political Critique and Cultural Expression / Mengyao Jiang ; Ambiguity, Identity, and Memory in Japanese Progressive Rock / Akitsugu Kawamoto ; The Tool Album as Gesamtkunstwerk / Nicole Biamonte and Jerry Cain
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