Poetry in English and Metal Music
Title | Poetry in English and Metal Music PDF eBook |
Author | Arturo Mora-Rioja |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2023-05-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 3031291832 |
Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical. This book develops a novel adaptation, appropriation, and quotation taxonomy that both expands our knowledge of how poetry is used in metal music and is useful for scholars across adaptation studies broadly. The text follows both a quantitative and a qualitative approach. It identifies 384 metal songs by 224 bands with intertextual ties to 146 poems written by fifty-one different poets, with a special focus on Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton's Paradise Lost and the work of WWI's War Poets. This analysis of transformational mechanisms allows poetry to find an afterlife in the form of metal songs and sheds light on both the adaptation and appropriation process and on the semantic shifts occasioned by the recontextualisation of the poems into the metal music culture. Some musicians reuse – and sometimes amplify – old verses related to politics and religion in our present times; others engage in criticism or simple contradiction. In some cases, the bands turn the abstract feelings evoked by the poems into concrete personal experiences. The most adventurous recraft the original verses by changing the point of view of either the poetic voice or the addressed actors, altering the vocaliser of the narrative or the gender of the protagonists. These mechanisms help metal musicians make the poems their own and adjust them to their artistic needs so that the resulting product is consistent with the expectations of the metal music culture.
Heavy Metal
Title | Heavy Metal PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy D. Hill |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2014-01-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781495343230 |
Over 10,000 words of poetry inspired by heavy metal and rock 'n' roll music and presented as lyrics. This collection of rock 'n' roll themed poetry touches on subject matter that has fueled many a classic rock or metal song. Topics such as politics, the drinking and drugging lifestyle, suicide, the apocalypse, lost love, anger and many more themes and narratives fill this book of poetry. We all have music inside our heads and we are all capable of being poets. This book is many years in the making and captures everything that is best about the scene that I grew up in - the late 80's and early 90's metal scene.
Heavy Metal: Rock 'N' Roll Poetry
Title | Heavy Metal: Rock 'N' Roll Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy D. Hill |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 151 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1312983248 |
Equipment for Living
Title | Equipment for Living PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Robbins |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1476747091 |
Brilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living. How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins’s mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.
Metal Missives
Title | Metal Missives PDF eBook |
Author | James Shade |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-12-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615735948 |
A Tome of Lyrics, Poems and Anecdotes from the Hard Rockin' Days of Heavy Metal A memoir based on lyrics, poems and anecdotes from the glory days of heavy metal, when long hair, headbangers and metalheads ruled the earth! Now revised and updated with NEW songs, NEW poems and rockin' NEW anecdotes!
Multilingual Metal Music
Title | Multilingual Metal Music PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda DiGioia |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2020-12-18 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1839099488 |
This multi-disciplinary book explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English including Japanese, Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, Austrian German, and Norwegian. Topics covered include national and minority identity, politics, wordplay, parody, local/global, intertextuality, and adaptation.
Heavy Metal Music in Britain
Title | Heavy Metal Music in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Gerd Bayer |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2013-01-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1409493857 |
Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic themes but were also speaking to the growing sense of deterioration in social and professional life. At the same time, however, heavy metal was seriously indebted to the legacies of blues and classical music as well as to larger literary and cultural themes. The genre also produced mythological concept albums and rewritings of classical poems. In other words, heavy metal tried from the beginning to locate itself in a liminal space between pedestrian mass culture and a rather elitist adherence to complexity and musical craftsmanship, speaking from a subaltern position against the hegemonic discourse. This collection of essays provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary look at British heavy metal from its beginning through The New Wave of British Heavy Metal up to the increasing internationalization and widespread acceptance in the late 1980s. The individual chapter authors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. Rather than focus on individual bands or songs, the essays collected here argue with the larger system of heavy metal music in mind, providing comprehensive analyses that relate directly to the larger context of British life and culture. The wide range of approaches should provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture.