The Devil sings the Blues: Heavy Metal, Gothic Fiction, and Post Modern Discourse.
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Novels and rock in general followed the same basic path, both went from being unaccepted to being part of popular culture. Gothic fiction, a subset of novels, and Heavy metal, a subset of Rock, seemed to follow an extremely similar path from when they were first created. The 1960's Rock band was singing the music of rebellion. Similar to how the gothic novels played out. The Rock slowly progressed to become more sexual and drug related. They gained more and more popularity. The gothic novels also suddenly became popular to the culture they were in.
Heavy metal changed rock from a sequence of well placed events in a three or four minute span to what seemed like random episodes loosely held together. The guitar solos seemed more far out, and rambling. Heavy metal of Led Zeppelin is very sexual and drug oriented, compared to the feel good bands of the early 60's. Gothic fiction was also very sexually focused.
Sometimes, Led Zeppelins heavy metal would add references to the devil for some more popularity. Gothic fiction also used horror as a means of shock value. These are just a few of the ways that Gothic fiction and Led Zeppelin's heavy metal rock can be compared. They are very similar in many ways.
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You need to fully cite your scholarly journal article -- that is, to say where and when it was published, as well as give the title and author. (I googled it; it's from the Journal of Popular Culture, Winter 1992.)
ReplyDeleteAs you summarize the article, you need to once or twice say something like "According to the author" or "According to Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds" just so it's clear that you're summarizing what this author has written.
Otherwise, good job. 23/25