Rock and romanticism : post-punk, goth, and metal as dark romanticism

Summary: Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music are not only influenced by but are an expression of Romanticism continuous with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century influences. Figures such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Friedrich, Schlegel, and Hoffman are brought alongside the music and visual aesthetics of the Rolling Stones, the New Romantics, the Pretenders, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Tom Verlaine, emo, Eminem, My Dying Bride, and Norwegian black metal to explore the ways that Romanticism continues into the present in all of its varying forms and expressions.

Record details

ISBN: 3319726889
ISBN: 9783319726885
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 174 pages)
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Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction. Rock and romanticism / by James Rovira -- Blake, Shelley, and rock. Tangled up in Blake : the triangular relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the beats / by Luke Walker ; Romanticism in the park : Mick Jagger reading Shelley / by Jaaneke van der Leest ; William Blake : the romantic alternative / by Douglas T. Root ; Digging at the roots : Martha Redbone's The garden of love : songs of William Blake / by Nicole Lobdell ; Tangle of matter and ghost : U2, Leonard Cohen, and Blakean Romanticism / by Lisa Crafton -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and rock. The inner revolution(s) of Wordsworth and the Beatles / by David Boocker ; When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky : Jackson Browne's romantic vision / by Gary Tandy ; Swimming against the stream : Rush's romantic critique of their modern age / by David S. Hogsette -- Wordsworth's Michael, the georgic, and blackberry smoke / by Ronald D. Morrison ; Wordsworth on the radio / by Rachel Feder -- European romanticisms and popular music. -- Themes of Scapigliatura and Poètes Maudits in the songs of Piero Ciampi (1934-1980) / by Lorenzo Sorbo.
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