Simpatías por el Mal: El discurso persuasivo en “Sympathy for the Devil” de los Rolling Stones y “Jesucristo García” de Extremoduro

• Authors: Alfons Gregori i Gomis

Title variants

EN

Attractions of Evil: The persuasive discourse in Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil and Extremoduro’s Jesucristo García.

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Dealing with discourses produced in Contemporary Popular Music, it is usual in contemporary youth’s imaginary to find rock considered as metonymic with authenticity, remaining as a movement an outstanding extension of Romanticism. Then, when drawing out its motifs from Satanism, successful rock lyrics need a rhetorical stylization in order to construct persuading songs beyond traditional morals. The main goal of this article is to analyze and compare this kind of stylization in Rolling Stones’s Sympathy for the Devil and Jesucristo García, written by the Spanish band Extremoduro, taking them both as examples of popularized dramatic monologues that present the topic of attraction of Evil performed by devilish figures.

Keywords

PL

Contemporary Popular Music; lyrics; devil; metonymy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-115

Dates

published

2010-01-01

Contributors

author

Alfons Gregori i Gomis

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2010.371.008