[Commlist] New book - The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination

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

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Progressive-Rock-Metal-and-the-Literary-Imagination/Anderton-Burns/p/book/9781032340739

Co-edited by Chris Anderton and Lori Burns, this Handbook features 35 
chapters by leading and emergent scholars from around the world, and 
illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge 
striking engagements with literary texts and themes.
 The contributors offer global and diverse perspectives on the genres 
of progressive rock and metal and their literary connections: from 
ancient times to the modern world, from children’s literature to epic 
poetry, from mythology to science fiction, and from esoteric fantasy to 
harsh political criticism. The musical treatments of these literary 
materials span the continents from South and North America through 
Europe and Asia. The collection presents critical perspectives on the 
enduring and complex relationships between words and music as these are 
expressed in progressive rock and metal.

Reviews:

The contributors delve into the literary source materials used by prog 
and metal musicians; they interrogate the manner in which those sources 
are adapted; and they take seriously the reception and resonance of the 
elements that result from this interplay between music and literature. 
This expansive volume offers much-needed correctives and illuminating 
advances, and hence, it will serve as an important resource for scholars 
in multiple disciplines.
Timothy J. Dowd, Emory University, USA

This an outstanding collection of chapters that explore the 
intersections between progressive rock, metal and the literary 
imagination. Each contribution here is a must-read and the editors have 
done an incredible job framing the Handbook.
Karl Spracklen, PhD, AcSS, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Chris Anderton and Lori Burns have compiled an immense collection of 
chapters that are wide-ranging and far-reaching in their historical, 
geographical and disciplinary diversity. Exploring the myriad ways in 
which aspects of songs, albums, album art and live performances 
intersect with storytelling and storyworlds, Progressive Rock, Metal and 
the Literary Imagination offers scholars, listeners and fans a fresh 
perspective on these two titanic genres.
Nick Braae, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Table of Contents:

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
János 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 Mądro
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 Müller, 
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 Véliz
32.  “La Libre Creación”: Exploring Narrativity in the Progressive Rock 
of Northwest Spain during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Eduardo Garcia Salueña
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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