9781502804181

When Death Is NOT Theoretical

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ISBN13: 9781502804181

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"Baby boomers" dealing with death - especially death "definitely on the calendar" - feel free to choose from an array of "hymns" beyond "Amazing Grace," and have been tending to look especially to one music group - "Queen" - as a source of funeral songs. The focus of "When Death Is NOT Theoretical ...," including theological overtones, is on three aspects: (1) the apparently seven-year period, from mid 1984 to late 1991, when Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), the extraordinarily talented frontman of the versatile music group "Queen," actively dealt with dying while performing,(2) the thirteen-year period before that when Queen already handled the double theme of "facing death head-on" and of "affirming life while fully aware of death", plus (3) the effect of this very public dying and this persistent, quiet awareness of death both on Mercury's bandmates and on the group's "baby boomer" fans as they became faced with death.Most considerations of Queen and its musical catalogue have been by journalists, but Dr. Powell approaches these questions as an historian and clinician, analyzing fifty-some songs and mobilizing extensive amounts of data to support his conclusions. Endnotes suggest answers to several additional long-puzzling questions about Queen and the music group's work - such as, where did Mercury get his name? and where did Queen get the title "Seven Seas of Rhye"?

ISBN-13

9781502804181

ISBN-10

1502804182

Weight

0.23 Pounds

Dimensions

5.98 x 0.15 x 9.02 In

List Price

$14.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

60 pages

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published On

2014-11-09



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