Plan succeptible d'être modifié, non définitif

Y a des choses à traduire

choisir un fond pour la presentation (des pochettes d'album connues ?), sinon j'aime bien le style de dreamtheater.net (gris/noir/blanc) tout ça

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Heavy Metal Music

by Glenn Rolland, Julien ... and Sebastian Schawohl

je verai bien comme fond pour l'écran titre genre une pochette d'album bien connue comme Master of Puppets, avec à la place de Metallica écrit, Heavy Metal dans la même police ... non ? ... ou photo d'un concert (scéne, audience) ?

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Plan

• Birth of the Heavy Metal From the Blues to the Heavy Metal
  • From the Blues to the Rock
  • From the Rock to the Heavy Metal
• The Heavy Metal
  • History
  • Variety of styles
• Progressive Metal
  • History
  • Differences with the Heavy Metal
  • Dream Theater
    • Biography
    • Discography
• The cultural background of Heavy Metal
• Clichés of the Heavy Metal
• Sources

Birth of the Heavy Metal
From the Blues to the Heavy Metal

From the Blues to the Rock

• Late 19th, early 20th early forms of the Blues
• Blues popularized in 1910 in the U.S.A. in Memphis by W.C. Handy

quote The Blues... it's 12-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race, bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization.

• 40s and 50s use of amplification and popularisation in cities such as Chicago and Detroit
• 50s : BB King invented the concept of lead guitar
• Rock guitarists like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Page, Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles
• Electric blues give the rise to Rock and Roll
• Late 40s, early 50s : stronger beat and wilder style
• Covering of blues songs by white performers -> original artists' recordings received radio play

From the Rock to the Heavy Metal

• Rock and Roll emerged in the 50s in America
• March 21st, 1952 : first Rock and Roll concert in Cleveland
• End 60s : rock had spread throughout the world
• Diversity of styles
  • Progressive Rock break the guitar-bass-drum format and could be lush and beautiful or atonal and dissonant, highly complex or minimalistic, sometimes all within the same song. (King Crimson, Yes, Pink Floyd, Magma, Genesis)
• From 1958 to 1969 : British Invasion, Britain new center of Rock and Roll (The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who...)
• Birth of a counterculture 1968-1974
• Second wave of British bands with highly amplified, often spectacular, performances
• Bands led by the guitar like Led Zeppelin, and heavier ones like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were classified as playing Heavy Metal

But also classical influences

• Musical figuration based inspired by Bach and Paganini
• Late Baroque era frequently interpreted though gothinc lens

The Heavy Metal

History

• Most of the 70s : critics hated the genre, and listeners generally avoided it because of its strangeness
• 80s : NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) led by Judas Priest and Iron Maiden
• Heavy Metal spawned a host of new "metal" genres such as Death Metal
• Bands like Metallica, Megadeth became very popular
• The new "metal" genres have more commercial succes than the Heavy Metal (New Metal ...)

Variety of styles

diagramme + explication des styles les plus communs et/ou atypiques
http://www.calaquendi.org/tofs/organigramme_metal.gif

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+ autres ...

Heavy metal's Culture

Inspiration

• Heavy metal is more than just music: it is as much visual as audible.
• Importance of the presentation (cf. album covers & stage shows)

Visual components

• Pop-influenced fantasy,
• Themes of darkness, evil, power, and apocalypse are fantastic language components,
• Counterculture of the "peace and love" hippie culture.

Cultural Impact

• friction between fans & mainstream society
• because of the anti-religious sentiments of heavy metal, wearing a black t-shirt in some religiously-oriented countries had become an arrestable offense.
• devil horns handsign
• because of the themes & the nature of the music, heavy metal is now the subject of many stereotypes

Progressive Metal

• Heavier brand of progressive rock which is distinguished by its typical drumming pattern and odd time signatures
• Often referred to as The Thinking Man's Metal or Music made by musicians, for musicians
• First progressive metal bands : Fates Warning and Queensrÿche, but no wide audience
• 1990 : Queensrÿche became well-known
• 1992 : Progressive Metal reference album : Dream Theater, Images and Words
• Lot of influences :
  • Jazz for Dream Theater
  • Classical music for Symphony X
  • Death Metal for Opeth

Differences with the Heavy Metal

• great melodic aspect
• longer songs
• odd-time signatures
• great technique
• great emotional aspect

Dream Theater

mettre en image http://www.dreamtheater.art.pl/gfx/bio_zdjecie.jpg

• James Labrie Vocals
• John Myung Bass
• John Petrucci Guitars
• Mike Portnoy Drums
• Jordan Rudess Keyboards

Biography

• 1986 : John Petrucci and John Myung attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where they met Mike Portnoy
  • First band called Majesty
• 1987 : new singer, Charlie Dominici
  • Band changed his name for Dream Theater
• 1989 : First album When Dream and Day Unite
• New singer, Kevin Labrie
• 1992 : Album Images and Words
• 1993 : Album Live at the Marquee
• 1994 : Third studio album Awake
  • Kevin Moore left the band
• 1995 : Album A Change of Seasons (EP)
• 1997 : Album Falling Into Infinity
• 1998 : Second live album Once in a Livetime (double cd) recorded in France
• 1999 : Derek Sherinian is fired
• 1999 : Concept album Metropolis Part 2 : Scenes From a Memory
• 2001 : Live album Live Scenes From New-York (triple cd)
• 2002 : Album Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Double album)
• 2003 : Album Train of Thought
• 2004 : Album Live at Budokan (triple cd)

Clichés of Heavy Metal

Long hair or black clothes showing shocking things.

Photo de tee-shirt, de concert...

• Long hair and headbanging

Pogo : The amount of sweat is proportionnal to the stupidity.

• A ritual way to show off the inner primality of the man
• An outlet for the deep violence of some teenagers

Démonstration avec notre bien aimé (c) Elias.

Satanism : sacrifices to please Satan, our grateful Lord.

• Some bands are making their money by and only by their look

Vidéo sur le satanisme ?
Raped virgins, crucified children, etc.

Body-art : piercings, tatoos, scarifications...

Photo retouchée.

Beer, and any drink by the way

Violence, antisemitism and primal xenophobia

Sources

History

http://www.history-of-rock.com/blues.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music

Flow chart

http://www.calaquendi.org/tofs/organigramme_metal.gif

Progressive Music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_metal
http://progressia.net
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/hawkslane/584/histoire.htm

Dream Theater

http://www.dreamtheater.net
http://www.yourmajesty.net

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