The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination

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Endorsement Page
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Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Copyright Credits
Introduction: Reflections on the Literary Imagination in Progressive Rock and Metal
Part I Theoretical Frameworks
Chapter 1 More Erudite Than Your Average Rock Band: Progressive Rock and Literature
Chapter 2 Cross-Pollinations: Progressive Rock and Science Fiction
Chapter 3 So Hard to Find in My Cosmic Mind: Hippie Spirituality and Jon Anderson’s Lyrics
Chapter 4 “Everything in the Lower World Has Its Root in Higher Worlds”1: Rock and Religion in Jon Anderson’s Chagall Songs
Chapter 5 Poets and Prophets: The Lyricists of Early Progressive Rock from Self-Creation to Parody
Chapter 6 The Origin of Progressive Metal Lyrics in Black Sabbath’s Music
Chapter 7 The Dystopian Impulse in Prog: Cross-Cutting Thread/ts in Dystopian Concept Albums
Part II Literary Adaptations
Chapter 8 Time Travel Through Tolkien
Chapter 9 Into the Storm : Blind Guardian’s Nightfall in Middle Earth and the Tolkien Reception in German Metal Music
Chapter 10 Storytelling Strategies in Camel’s Music Inspired by The Snow Goose
Chapter 11 Musical Evocations of the Uncanny in David Bedford’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Chapter 12 Royal Hunt’s Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Interplay Between Narrativity and Western Art Music
Chapter 13 Neo-Progressive Rock and Children’s Literature: Stories of Innocence and Experience in Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood and Pendragon’s The Masquerade Overture
Chapter 14 Kamelot’s Adaptation of Goethe’s Faust: Tragic Subjectivities in Power Metal
Part III Mythologies and Folklores
Chapter 15 Singing Minstrels, Recorders, and the Carnivalesque: Gentle Giant’s Medievalist Imagination
Chapter 16 “We Are the Varangian Guard”: Musical Rhetoric and Literary Reference in Turisas’ Varangian Way Albums
Chapter 17 “Enuma Elish Is Re-Written”: A Quantitative Survey of Mesopotamian Mythology’s Reception in Metal Lyrics
Chapter 18 Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal
Chapter 19 “Legend Never Dies”: Mythology and Canon of Literature in Symphony X’s Underworld
Chapter 20 Recovery, Escape, and Consolation: Uriah Heep’s The Magician’s Birthday as Fairy-Story
Chapter 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
Part IV Storyworlds
Chapter 22 Narrative Worldmaking as Social Commentary in Pink Floyd’s Animals
Chapter 23 Invisible Nonsense: Zero the Hero’s Journey in Gong’s Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy
Chapter 24 The Edge of This Airfield: Ballardian Liminal Spaces in the Music of Trevor Horn
Chapter 25 Finding Progressive Rock in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Chapter 26 Dream Theater’s The Astonishing: The Unification of the Literary and the Musical
Chapter 27 Storytelling, Narrative, and Coherence in Avatar’s Feathers and Flesh (In His Own Words) (2017)
Chapter 28 The Hauntology of Story, Gameplay, Images, and Music: Hajo Müller, Steven Wilson, Jess Cope, and Ovosonico’s Last Day of June
Part V Subjectivities and Identities
Chapter 29 The New Jerusalem: Genesis and Englishness
Chapter 30 Us & Them: Dystopias, Resistance, and Literary Influences in Roger Waters’ Work (1968–2019)
Chapter 31 Las Alturas de Machu Picchu: Los Jaivas, Progressive Rock, and the Unmooring of Latin American Identity
Chapter 32 “La Libre Creación”: Exploring Narrativity in the Progressive Rock of Northwest Spain during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Chapter 33 Resonating Authenticities: Chinese Progressive Rock Lyrics as Socio-Political Critique and Cultural Expression
Chapter 34 Ambiguity, Identity, and Memory in Japanese Progressive Rock
Chapter 35 Tool Album as Gesamtkunstwerk
Index