Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind Paperback / softback
Edited by Jared Kemling, Randall E. Auxier
Part of the Pop Culture and Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen’s reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful and provocative chapters include:◠uncover the origins of Queen’s unique style in prog rock, vulgarity, and lower versus higher Romanticism◠examine Queen’s view of love and friendship◠draw upon three timeless Queen songs, “We Will Rock You,†“We Are the Champions,†and “Don’t Stop Me Now†and Socrates’s behavior in the Apology, to understand the “rocking†nature of philosophy◠identify the connections between ancient matriarchal religion and Queen’s love for strong female imagery◠explore how Brian May’s astrophysics brings to bear the issues of absolute versus relative spacetime and how the philosophies of Newton, Mach, and Einstein contribute to Queen’s creative output◠analyze the structure of Queen’s sound to answer the inevitable question, How can four people make all that music?◠expose what Queen’s songs tell us about the contemporary theory of mental illness and therapy◠scrutinize Roger Taylor’s stark impressions of ordinary life and death, and their alignment to the cynical musings of Diogenes of Sinope and Seneca’s blunt observations on the shortness of life◠look at the movie Highlander through the music of Queen and reveal how both song and cinema convey the philosophy of bushido, the soul of the samurai
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Carus Books
- Publication Date:15/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781637700327
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Carus Books
- Publication Date:15/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781637700327