Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen’s reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful and provocative chapters include:● uncover the origins of Queen’s unique style in prog rock, vulgarity, and lower versus higher Romanticism● examine Queen’s view of love and friendship● draw upon three timeless Queen songs, “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,” and “Don’t Stop Me Now” and Socrates’s behavior in the Apology, to understand the “rocking” nature of philosophy● identify the connections between ancient matriarchal religion and Queen’s love for strong female imagery● explore how Brian May’s astrophysics brings to bear the issues of absolute versus relative spacetime and how the philosophies of Newton, Mach, and Einstein contribute to Queen’s creative output● analyze the structure of Queen’s sound to answer the inevitable question, How can four people make all that music?● expose what Queen’s songs tell us about the contemporary theory of mental illness and therapy● scrutinize Roger Taylor’s stark impressions of ordinary life and death, and their alignment to the cynical musings of Diogenes of Sinope and Seneca’s blunt observations on the shortness of life● look at the movie Highlander through the music of Queen and reveal how both song and cinema convey the philosophy of bushido, the soul of the samurai

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-06-15
Mått150 x 226 x 18 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePop Culture and Philosophy
Antal sidor232
FörlagCarus Books
ISBN9781637700327

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IntroductionPart I: My Fairy Kings1. Side White: Worshiping the White Queen (As it Began)Jared Kemling2. Side Black: Master Stroke of a Fairy FellerJared Kemling3. Queen, Prog, and Vulgar RomanticismJan Olof BengtssonPart II: A Night at the Concert4. Be Free with Your Tempo: Freedom, Individuality, and Nonconformity in InnuendoDouglas Rasmussen5. Let Me Entertain You: Performance as a Tour de Force (Of Course)Julie Kuhlken6. Freddie’s Left Hand: Queen and the Order of MusicRandall E. AuxierPart III: The Show Must Go On7. Is Adam Lambert a Killer of Queen, or Somebody to Love?Megan Volpert8. Instrumental Instrumentalism: Is Red Special a Member of Queen?Steven GimbelPart IV: Made in the Heavens9. Hot SpacetimeKristina Šekrst10. Tie the Cosmos Down: Brian May’s Astrophysics and MusicRandall E. AuxierPart V: I’m Going Slightly Mad11. Stone Cold Crazy: Queen, Mental Disorder, and SufferingSnita Ahir-Knight12. Hitting Rock BottomRobert S. VuckovichPart VI: Sheer Head Attack13. Hammer to Fall in the Shadow of DeathRobert DeVall14. Don’t Lose Your Head: The Interconnectedness of Queen and HighlanderKevin Taylor15. We Want to Love Forever, Forever is Ours TodayJohn ShookPart VII: Some Body to Love16. Freddie and Mary: A Single Soul Dwelling in Two BodiesAndrew Kaplan17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover BoyDarci DollPart VIII: Supersonic Men18. Queen and My Uncle’s Delicacy of Taste and PassionChristopher M. Innes19. He Will Rock You: Socrates was the Most Rock and Roll of MenMichael F. PattonReferences (I Want it All)Bohemian BiographiesIndex (Now I’m Here)