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Representation of World War II images in popular music. Album ‘Heroes’ of heavy power metal band ‘Sabaton’
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-6-287-297
Abstract
The article identifies and analyzes the formation of images of the past in popular music on the example of the tracks from the album “Heroes” by the band “Sabaton”. The work studies the representations of the war images in popular music in the context of the original works of the musical group “Sabaton”, interviews of musicians, reviews of fans and critics, as well as videos of the popular science YouTube channel of the group. The author develops studies of representations of the military history images in the context of culture and the arts, using popular music, which is unpopular in research, but a large-scale and ubiquitous phenomenon. Through the involvement of audiovisual sources (video clips and performances at concerts), as well as interviews and video materials of the popular science channel, the author reveals an issue of narrativization and glorification of the historical past and its participants, the creation of completely new images and plots by the Swedish group in the context of representations of the past. The involvement and analysis of the works from the popular science channel “Sabaton History” allows to identify the background for the creation of songs by the Swedish band, to find out the opinions of musicians and a professional historian responsible for maintaining the channel. The example considered in the article demonstrates how popular music works with images of the past, and how the techniques of representation may vary depending on different cultural and linguistic contexts.
About the Author
S. S. MedakinRussian Federation
Sergey S. Medakin, student
bld. 21/4, Staraya Basmannaya St., Moscow, 105066
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Supplementary files
For citation: Medakin S.S. Representation of World War II images in popular music. Album ‘Heroes’ of heavy power metal band ‘Sabaton’. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2022;(6 (2)):287-297. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-6-287-297
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