Black Sabbath and Philosophy : Mastering Reality.
William. Irwin
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (219 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- 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 Reality -- Evil 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 Explanation -- The 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.. - "Wicked World" -- "War Pigs" -- Final Judgment -- Notes -- 15 "Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen": Is Ozzy Going Insane? -- Ozzy's Insanity and Descartes' Demon -- How Not to Fall "Into the Void" of Skepticism -- What Can Ozzy Know? -- Is This Cause to Be Paranoid? -- Notes -- 16 "As the War Machine Keeps Turning": Just War Theory, Pacifism, and the War on Terror -- War Is Hell -- Why Should They Go Out to Fight? -- Necessary Evil or Overkill? -- Until the Day the War Drums Beat No More -- When War Is Obsolete -- "Win the Fight for Peace" -- Notes -- 17 Stop Stereotyping Sabbath: Sex, Subjugation, and Stupidity -- Let's Not Be Hasty Here . . . -- Practically Clubbing Women -- Cavemen Get a Bad Rap and a Bad Rep -- She Was My Woman . . . I Loved Her So . . . -- Crunchy Pleasure -- Notes -- Contributors: Children of the Grave -- Index.. - 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 Fan -- What 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? -- Which "Sabbath" Is Really Sabbath? -- Notes -- 13 The Name Remains the Same-But Should It? -- On This Album, the Role of the Singer Will Be Played By … -- I Saw It, I Saw It, I Tell You No Lies -- Treating People Just Like Pawns in Chess -- No Stranger to Record Companies -- Sick and Tired … of Changes -- Notes -- Part V Symptoms of The Universe -- 14 Wicked World: The Politics of the Supernatural in Black Sabbath -- "People Got to Work Just to Earn Their Bread" -- "Day of Judgment, God Is Calling" -- "Black Sabbath" -- "The Wizard" -- "N.I.B.".. - 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 lyrics to help you understand Black Sabbath as never before. Discusses and debates essential Black Sabbath topics and themes, such as the problem of evil, "War Pigs" and the nature of just war theory, whether or not Sabbath is still Sabbath without Ozzy, and whether "evil is in the ear of the beholder" Gives you new perspectives on Black Sabbath's music and lyrics Provides a deeper appreciation and understanding of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ronnie James Dio Brings some of history's heaviest thinkers to bear on the band's music, from Aristotle and Nietzsche to Schopenhauer and Marx So . . . can you help me, occupy my brain? Yes! Start reading Black Sabbath and Philosophy.
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