The Routledge handbook of progressive rock, metal, and the literary imagination / edited by Chris Anderton and Lori Burns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderton, Chris, editor.

Burns, Lori, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Routledge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressive rock music--History and criticism.

Progressive rock music.

Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music).

Music and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 449 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of progressive rock, metal, and the literary imagination

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of progressive rock, metal, and the literary imagination

ISBN:

9781003320432

1003320430

9781040297124

1040297129

9781040297087

1040297080

Publisher Number:

90101070106

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