To make the show more palatable for broadcast audiences and advertisers, the show has toned down some of its racier lyrics. It also won’t be in Fox’s Grease: Live, not because it’s dumb as hell, but because advertisers demanded it be scrapped. “You are supreme, the chicks’ll cream for Greased Lightn'”ĮDisgusting and unnecessary. Though not as nasty as the worst lyric in the history of music. Sandy is the inspiration for the “Be a Whore to Get Your Man” trope, the lovable scamps in the T-Birds regularly look up the skirts of unsuspecting women, and a hickey from Kenickie is just gross. Danny and Sandy are together, then they’re not, then they are, then they fly into the Sun?Īnyway, Grease appeals to kids and adults alike (the first time I saw it was with my mom), but it probably shouldn’t. “Hopelessly Devoted to You” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the film won multiple People’s Choice Awards. London: Proteus Books.Grease was the top-grossing movie of 1978 (it beat Superman by more than $25 million), and was at one point the third highest grossing movie of all-time, behind only Star Wars and Jaws. Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Journal of Royal Musical Association 116: 280–98. The Politics of Reception: Tailoring the Present as Fulfillment of a Desired Past. In Oxford Handbook on Music and Medievalism, eds. Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance. Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and Is That What Makes Them Have a History?): A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion. Carmina Sanctorum – Music from The Middle Ages in Praise of Saints. Sanctum Rosarium, Sacred Music from Middle Ages. Secular Music in France, XIVth–XVth Century, Machaut, Dufay, Binchois and Anonymous. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Voce Bianca, Purity and Whiteness in British Early Music Vocality. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. In Black Sabbath and Philosophy, Mastering Reality, ed. The Art of Black Sabbath, Aristotle Joins the Band. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. The Corded Shell, Reflections on Musical Expression. Mass Market Medieval, Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture, ed. If I Lay My Hands on the Grail: Arthurianism and Progressive Rock. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Is It the End my Friend? Black Sabbath’s Apocalypse of Horror. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.įroese, B. Emotional Knowledge in Emotional Lexicons, Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700–2000. Kiel, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk.įrevert, U. Days of Future Past: Rock, Pop, and the Yearning for the Middle Ages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.įast, S. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.ĭeaville, J. The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification. Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.Ĭope, A.L. Ramble On: Medievalism as a Nostalgic Practice in Led Zeppelin’s Use of J.R.R. The body in Rondellus’s ‘medieval’ music thus appears emotionally controlled, suggesting interiority and restraint.Ĭarlos, C. Rondellus’s adaptation of Black Sabbath’s musical codes and emotional register is positioned against Ute Frevert’s theorization of emotional display as governed by social etiquette. They do so through musico-emotional codes that communicate the body’s physicality: snarled or shouted vocals, distorted bass and guitar, pounding drums, and melodies characterized more by rhythm than pitch. Most of the Black Sabbath songs chosen perform emotions that range from anger and aggression to bitterness and pain. Of paramount interest is the way in which these performance practice elements are directed by the emotional expression consistent with the genres. This essay explores the medieval ensemble Rondellus’s tribute album to Black Sabbath, Sabbatum (Beg the Bug 211200-002, 2002), and the extent to which instrumental timbre, vocality, rhythm, and musical setting help communicate ‘authentic’ medieval music.
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