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

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
Janos 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 Mueller, 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 Veliz


32. "La Libre Creacion": Exploring Narrativity in the Progressive Rock of Northwest Spain during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Eduardo Garcia Saluena


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

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Progressive rock;Progressive metal;Literature and narrative theory;Literary adaptation;Concept album;Worldmaking;Transmedia storytelling and multimodality;Science Fiction, Dystopia, and Utopia;Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity;Politics, history, and cultural memory