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How Poetry Becomes Metal Music: Transformation Categories

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The proposed transformation taxonomy consists of five different categories. Each one of them is introduced and illustrated with the analysis of, at least, four paradigmatic instances of poem-to-song transformations. In total, twenty-one songs by seventeen bands from different countries and metal subgenres are scrutinised. The instances are based on twenty poems by seventeen different British, American, and Irish authors from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. A vast array of textual and musical techniques that favour the transition from poem to song are identified, and musicians’ concern with the rhythmic and semantic particularities of the source verses is highlighted. The analysis confirms that poetry and metal music share common topics, that the international outreach of poetry in English spans further away from English-speaking countries, and that the use of poems as lyrical sources is almost absent from the most popular subgenres of metal music.

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  1. 1.

    As it occurs with many poems by Emily Dickinson (Miller 2016, 1–22), there are two versions in circulation, varying in word choice due to different interpretations of Dickinson’s annotations. According to Miller, Dickinson’s preferred diction uses “Sire” instead of “sweet” (Dickinson 2016, 348). Lyriel used the author’s allegedly less-preferred version of the poem.

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    Following the previous footnote, Dickinson’s allegedly less-preferred version uses “content” instead of “suffice”.

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    Although the verses to Dowland’s song are credited as anonymous in the album sleeve, Crawford (2014) attributes them to Dowland himself.

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    This verse is incorrectly transcribed in the album sleeve as “Blood, red and sweet”.

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    “Our supreme and holy Grace, protecting us and ours, deliver us, God, from the savage Northman race which lays waste our realms” (Magnusson 1980, 61).

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    Email communication with the author, 2017.

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