Black Sabbath & philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : mastering reality / / edited by William Irwin

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.42166092/2
• Soggetto topico: Music and philosophy; Rock music - History and criticism
• Classificazione: PHI000000
• Altri autori: IrwinWilliam <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Black Sabbath & Philosophy: Mastering Reality; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: "What Is This That Stands Before Me?"; Acknowledgments: They Sold Their Souls for Rock 'n' Roll; Part I Necessary Evil; 1 Beyond Good and Evil: Facing Your Demons With Black Sabbath and Existentialism; "Life Has No Meaning, and Death's His Only Friend"; "I've Seen the Future and I've Left It Behind"; "I Just Believe in Myself, 'Cause No One Else Is True"; Unfinished Symphonies; Notes; 2 Masters of a Better Possible Reality: Conquering Evil With Love; Evil Is a Problem; Pictures of Evil ; Imagining a Better RealityEvil on Stage; Notes; 3 "Is It the End, My Friend?" Black Sabbath's Apocalypse of Horror; Birmingham Apocalypse; Last Things; Satan Smiling: War and Judgment; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Death and Deliverance; Planet Caravan: Journeys of Time and Space; The End Is Near; Notes; Part II Playing Devil's Advocate; 4 Black Sabbath and the Sound of Evil; Sinister Sounds; Ask Sabbath; (Fretting) Hand of Doom; "Going Through (Key) Changes . . ."; Sabbath Matters; Notes; 5 The Worst of All Possible Worlds: Schopenhauer Meets Sabbath; One Shot at Glory; But Against All Odds ... ; For Those Who Sow in Flames, an ExplanationThe Original Diabolus in Musica; Some Final Seeds of Hate; Notes; 6 Tony Iommi's Hand of Doom: From Plastic Fingertips to Creative Freedom; The Phenomenology of Minds, Bodies, and Little Bits of Plastic; Tony Iommi's Creative Freedom and the Birth of Heavy Metal; Notes; Part III The Dark Art of Metal; 7 The Art of Black Sabbath: Aristotle Joins the Band; Bringing Aristotle up to Date; Aristotle Joins Black Sabbath; The Need for Dark Art; The Need to Shake up Your Mind; Sweet Leaf?; Notes; 8 Black Sabbath and the Problem of Defining Metal ; Why Do We Need Categories?Metal Conditions?; All in the Sabbath Family; Black Sabbath as a Prototype for Heavy Metal; Go Forth and Find New Prototypes; Notes; 9 Saint Vitus Dance: The Art of Doom; The Devil's Dictionary; What About Paint Vomited onto a Canvas?; Coughing Art; Was Doom in the Air?; Standards of Doom; Sons of Sabbath; Notes; 10 Gods, Drugs, and Ghosts: Finding Dionysus and Apollo in Black Sabbath and the Birth of Heavy Metal; In Praise of Sweet Leaf and COKE-Cola; The Birth of Tragedy and the Birth of Heavy Metal; Goat Songs and Clowns; A Satanic Interlude ; If Nietzsche Had Been a Black Sabbath FanWhat Is This That Stands Before Me?; Warning: Not for Mere Mortals; Notes; Part IV Is It Still Sabbath Without Ozzy?; 11 It's Not Sabbath Unless Ozzy's the Singer (But It's Fine If You Disagree); Mastering Metaphysical Reality: Why Geezer Butler Isn't a Plank of Wood; Behind the Wall of Thought Experiments; Avoiding the Fictional Seduction of Bad Metaphysics; Notes; 12 Fightin' Words: Sabbath Doesn't Need the Ozzman; Bands vs Line-Ups; A Sabbath By Any Other Name Would Be as Black; Going Through Changes; Criteria, Bloody Criteria ; How Essential Is the Ozzman?
• Sommario/riassunto: A philosophical look at heavy metal's dark masters of reality, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is one of the world's most influential and enduring rock bands. Dubbed ""the Beatles of heavy metal"" by Rolling Stone, they helped to define a genre with classic songs like ""Paranoid"", ""Iron Man"", and ""War Pigs"", songs whose lyrics reveal hidden depth and philosophical insight. Their songs confront existential despair, social instability, political corruption, the horrors of war, and the nature of evil. This book explores the wide range of profound ideas in the band's music and lyr
• Titolo autorizzato: Black Sabbath & philosophy
• ISBN: 1-118-52308-3; 1-283-64600-5; 1-118-39761-4; 1-118-49380-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141386703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series