X4: Uses of William Blake in Popular Culture
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2011
The Cincinnati indie rock band, Walk the Moon, released their debut album, “i want! i want!”, in November of 2010. An engraving William Blake included in his 18-piece compilation called For the Children: The Gates of Paradise inspired the title of the album. For the Children: The Gates of Paradise is a series of tiny engravings that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2011
To supplement our R2 pieces, Kevin Ceballos and I (Abby DelBianco) are adding this blog post as a discussion and debate over our two posts on William Blake and Jim Morrison: “Romantic Rebellion” and “The Dark Night of the Soul.” While we both saw the dark and romantic aspects of Blake’s piece “Auguries of Innocence,” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2011
Jerusalem on YouTube – Parry, Elgar, Blake The hymn Jerusalem was written by British composer Hubert H. Parry in 1916. The song uses the poem And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by poet William Blake. Written by Blake as a preface to his work Milton a Poem in 1804 it was included in a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2011
In November 1997, the Christian Ska band, Five Iron Frenzy, released their second studio album titled, “Our Newest Album Ever!” Christian Ska…Ironic, huh? Ska, a fusion of R&B, Punk, and Reggae with a souped-up tempo, featuring a wide variety of instruments, traditionally includes a lot of profanity and non-Christian ideas. This makes Five Iron [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2011
William Blake had a way with the antithesis of innocence and experience. For Blake, the lightness was not the stereotypical representation of the pure good, and darkness is much deeper than fear and evil. His flashes of insight on the more thorough truths of darkness emerge in poems such as “The Clod and the Pebble,” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2011
Mr. Tambourine Man “Let me forget about today until tomorrow” – Bob Dylan Bob Dylan was edgy. He smoked. He didn’t care what people thought. He was guru of folk music, neither a singer nor a poet but rather a song and dance man:Bob Dylan\’s Interview on YouTube And now, he is known as one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2011
Romanticism was a major movement that William Blake participated in. In its purity, Romanticism stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. It was a major movement in the late 18th century with a magnitude similar to the counterculture movement. Blake was a key figure in this [...]
