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Author Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Title Introduction: Reflections on The Literary Imagination in Progressive Rock and Metal Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-14
Keywords Popular music; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
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Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2621
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Author Biamonte, Nicole; Cain, Jerry
Title The Tool Album as Gesamtkunstwerk Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 415-430
Keywords Tool (band); Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
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Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2634
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Author Burns, Lori
Title Kamelot’s Adaptation of Goethe’s Faust: Tragic Subjectivities in Power Metal Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 161-174
Keywords Popular music; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2624
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Author Coggins, Owen
Title “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 Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 244-256
Keywords Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2631
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Author Fejes, János
Title “Enuma Elish is Re-written”: A Quantitative Survey of Mesopotamian Mythology’s Reception in Metal Lyrics Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 204-214
Keywords Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2626
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Author Girard-Despraulex, Elise
Title Storytelling, Narrative, and Coherence in Avatar’s “Feathers and Flesh (In His Own Words)” (2027) Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 315-326
Keywords Avatar (Sweden); Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock; Storytelling
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2633
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Golovin, Aleksandar
Title Royal Hunt’s Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Interplay Between Narrativity and Western Art Music Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, Pages Chapter 12
Keywords Popular music; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2623
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Author Mądro, Andrzej
Title “Legend Never Dies”: Mythology and Canon of Literature in Symphony X’s Underworld Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 224-233
Keywords Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2628
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Mathioudakis, Grigorios
Title Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 215-223
Keywords Popular Culture; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2627
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Ringsmut, Martin
Title Into the Storm: Blind Guardian’s Nightfall in Middle Earth and the Tolkien Reception in German Metal music Type Book Chapter
Year 2025 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages Chapter 9
Keywords Popular music; Cultural study of popular music; Songwriting & recording; Music arts; Literary studies; Music & society; Musicology; Heavy metal; Progressive rock
Abstract << 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, Portland >>

“This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres 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.

The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second through final year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including: popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music and society.”

Source for both: https://www.routledge.com
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Oxfordshire, England Editor Anderton, Chris; Burns, Lori
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Routledge Music Handbooks Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 1032340738; 978-1032340739 Medium Hardback
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2622
Permanent link to this record