CFP: Romanticism and Heavy Metal The editors Julian Knox and James Rovira welcome chapter proposals for the forthcoming anthology Romanticism and Heavy Metal. Like the collections Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), David Bowie and Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and Women in Rock, WomenContinue reading “CFP: Romanticism and Heavy Metal”
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Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism Now Available from Routledge
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism (Routledge 2022) is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships among contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The art, music, and videos of contemporary artists including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters, Missy Elliot, the Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Janis JoplinContinue reading “Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism Now Available from Routledge”
David Bowie and Romantic Androgyny
My fifteen-year-old self couldn’t assimilate Bowie’s gender subversion: both of his appearances as a male that night [on SNL in 1979] were completely artificial, one kind of boy doll or another, the former’s movement completely restricted and the latter’s hyperactively unnatural. . . Bowie’s theatrical androgyny disrupted a culture of authenticity that was already, butContinue reading “David Bowie and Romantic Androgyny”
October 8th Book Talk about David Bowie and Romanticism
I held a follow-up book talk about David Bowie and Romanticism on October 8th, 2022, at Savvy Vinyl Records in Melbourne, FL with the owner, Michelle Pessaro. We talked about David Bowie and Romantic androgyny, David Bowie and fascism, and Bowie’s ongoing cultural profile. Check it out below, and check out The Bookstore for aContinue reading “October 8th Book Talk about David Bowie and Romanticism”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 