Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 176 mm, Gewicht: 1029 g
Reihe: Routledge Music Handbooks
Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 176 mm, Gewicht: 1029 g
Reihe: Routledge Music Handbooks
ISBN: 978-1-032-34073-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reflections on The Literary Imagination in Progressive Rock and Metal
Chris Anderton and Lori Burns
Part I. Theoretical Frameworks
1. More Erudite than Your Average Rock Band: Progressive Rock and Literature
Andy Bennett
2. Cross-pollinations: Progressive Rock and Science Fiction
Chris Anderton
3. So Hard to Find in My Cosmic Mind: Hippie Spirituality and Jon Anderson’s Lyrics
John Covach
4. “Everything in the lower world has its root in higher worlds”: Rock and Religion in Jon Anderson’s Chagall Songs
Jonathan C. Friedman
5. Poets and Prophets: The Lyricists of Early Progressive Rock from Self-Creation to Parody
Leonardo Masi
6. The Origin of Progressive Metal Lyrics in Black Sabbath’s Music
Nolan Stolz
7. The Dystopian Impulse in Prog: Cross-cutting Thread/ts in Dystopian Concept Albums
Marcel Bouvrie
Part II. Literary Adaptations
8. Time Travel Through Tolkien
Sarah Hill and Jon Gower
9. Into the Storm – Blind Guardian’s Nightfall in Middle Earth and the Tolkien Reception in German Metal music
Martin Ringsmut
10. Storytelling Strategies in Camel’s Music Inspired by The Snow Goose
Ryan Blakeley
11. Musical Evocations of the Uncanny in David Bedford’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kevin Holm-Hudson
12. Royal Hunt’s Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Interplay Between Narrativity and Western Art Music
Aleksandar Golovin
13. 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
14. Kamelot’s Adaptation of Goethe’s Faust: Tragic Subjectivities in Power Metal
Lori Burns
Part III. Mythologies and Folklores
15. Singing Minstrels, Recorders, and The Carnivalesque: Gentle Giant’s Medievalist Imagination
Richard Worth
16. “We are The Varangian Guard”: Musical Rhetoric and Literary Reference in Turisas’s Varangian Way Albums
Milan K. Schaller
17. “Enuma Elish is Re-written”: A Quantitative Survey of Mesopotamian Mythology’s Reception in Metal Lyrics
János Fejes
18. Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal
Grigorios Mathioudakis
19. “Legend Never Dies”: Mythology and Canon of Literature in Symphony X’s Underworld
Andrzej Madro
20. Recovery, Escape, and Consolation: Uriah Heep’s The Magician’s Birthday as Fairy-Story
Joshua B. Tuttle
21. “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
Part IV. Storyworlds
22. Narrative Worldmaking as Social Commentary in Pink Floyd’s Animals
Alexander C. Harden
23. Invisible Nonsense: Zero the Hero’s Journey in Gong’s Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy
Jay Keister
24. The Edge of this Airfield: Ballardian Liminal Spaces in the Music of Trevor Horn
Jacob Holm-Lupo
25. Finding Progressive Rock in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Ivan Tan
26. Dream Theater’s The Astonishing: The Unification of the Literary and the Musical
Ciro Scotto
27. Storytelling, Narrative, and Coherence in Avatar’s Feathers and Flesh – In His Own Words (2017)
Elise Girard-Despraulex
28. 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
Part V. Subjectivities and Identities
29. The New Jerusalem: Genesis and Englishness
David Pattie
30. Us & Them: Dystopias, Resistance, and Literary Influences in Roger Waters’ Work (1968–2019)
Philippe Gonin
31. Las Alturas de Machu Picchu: Los Jaivas, Progressive Rock, and the Unmooring of Latin American Identity
Israel Holas Allimant and Sergio Holas Véliz
32. “La Libre Creación”: Exploring Narrativity in the Progressive Rock of Northwest Spain during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Eduardo Garcia Salueña
33. Resonating Authenticities: Chinese Progressive Rock Lyrics as Socio-Political Critique and Cultural Expression
Mengyao Jiang
34. Ambiguity, Identity, and Memory in Japanese Progressive Rock
Akitsugu Kawamoto
35. The Tool Album as Gesamtkunstwerk
Nicole Biamonte and Jerry Cain
Index