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“Hear the Drunken Archangel Sing”: Blakean Notes in Pop Music

Fallon, David (2012) “Hear the Drunken Archangel Sing”: Blakean Notes in Pop Music. In: Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 248-262. ISBN 9780230280335

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Abstract

This essay examines the reception of Blake in pop music and its influence on the author function which Blake has come to serve. Drawing on song lyrics and research on blogs and in the music press, it shows how for a number of performers in the 1990s and 2000s, Blake provides a range of inspirational roles. The essay traces links between different pop iterations of Blake: political radical, mythmaker, hedonist, visionary Londoner, and deliberately uncompromising artist. The essay suggests that Jim Morrison's mediation of Blake as a shamanic hedonist has exercised an important and transformative role on the subsequent reception of Blake, especially among musicians.

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Depositing User: David Fallon

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Item ID: 4060
ISBN: 9780230280335
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/4060
Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=47...

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Date Deposited: 28 Aug 2013 09:41
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2019 11:49

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Author: David Fallon

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Media and Communications

Subjects

Culture > English Language and Literature

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