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Strange Brew Strange Brew: Metaphors of Magic and Science in Rock Music By Victor Kennedy Strange Brew: Metaphors of Magic and Science in Rock Music, by Victor Kennedy This book first published 2013 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2013 by Victor Kennedy All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4846-8, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4846-6 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii(cid:3) Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix(cid:3) Introduction ................................................................................................. 1(cid:3) Chapter One(cid:3) Is Metaphor the Magic of Music? ................................................................ 7(cid:3) Chapter Two(cid:3) How Rock got its Magic from the Blues ................................................... 31(cid:3) Chapter Three(cid:3) Magic and the Blues .................................................................................. 37(cid:3) Chapter Four(cid:3) Magic in Rock ........................................................................................... 43(cid:3) Chapter Five(cid:3) Psychedelia and The Age of Aquarius ....................................................... 53(cid:3) Chapter Six(cid:3) Myth and Legend in Song ......................................................................... 69(cid:3) Chapter Seven(cid:3) Sympathy for the Devil: Rock Gurus and Shamans .................................. 81(cid:3) Chapter Eight(cid:3) Science and Science Fiction in Rock ......................................................... 91(cid:3) Chapter Nine(cid:3) Flashbacks ............................................................................................... 111(cid:3) vi Table of Contents References ............................................................................................... 115 Endnotes .................................................................................................. 127 Index ........................................................................................................ 133 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fig. 1-1. Siegfried theme ........................................................................... 10 Fig. 1-2. The Imperial March from Star Wars .......................................... 11 Fig. 1-3. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, arranged for guitar ......... 13 Fig. 4-1. Scale degrees with chords ........................................................... 43 Fig. 4-2. The enharmonic tritone ............................................................... 47 Fig. 4-3. Octaves and tritones on the guitar ............................................... 48 Fig. 5-1. Snare drum from Ravel’s Bolero ................................................ 61 Fig. 5-2. Snare drum from Grace Slick’s “White Rabbit” ......................... 61 Fig. 8-1. Doctor Who theme ...................................................................... 99 Fig. 8-2. Star Trek theme ......................................................................... 100 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Michelle Gadpaille, John Kennedy and Jason Blake for reading the manuscript and for providing valuable corrections, comments and suggestions, Simon Robinson for providing ideas and perspective, and Samo Šalamon for tips on music theory. I would also like to thank Urška Pe(cid:254)onik and Matic A(cid:254)ko for their help with the graphics, and Simon Zupan and my colleagues at the University of Maribor for support and encouragement. Thanks also to family and friends, Bob Kennedy, Jim and Nancy Hunter, Moira Sadlier, Bill Simmons and Amy Kennedy.

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