Milton Goes (Progressive-Power) Metal: Symphony X and Milton’s Paradise Lost (Critique and Textual Analysis)

Studia Polensia

卷:10

Krešimir Vunić¹ 

[1] Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula;

关键词: aesthetics;    heavy metal;    common reader;    Satan;    John Milton;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this paper is twofold: that Heavy Metal is a genreof popular music is simply a given, so the author begins by exploring someof the aporia should one attempt to research such a form of music in anacademic context. Making the claim that popular music (and this includesheavy metal) involves multiple aspects that are outside the aesthetics ofmusic, yet conceding that the genre of Heavy Metal (following DeenaWeinstein) follows a ‘code’ which includes much which informs some ofthe more submerged facets of the self and the wider culture, the authorhas decided to explore how Symphony X has incorporated John Milton’s‘Paradise Lost’ for the purposes of their album of the same name. Theauthor proposes that although Symphony X’s album is an expression of the‘Dionysian’ side of Heavy Metal, the band has incorporated those aspectswhich are most likely to attract the common reader and does not attemptan engagement with Milton’s wider concerns.

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