Imagery In Popular Music

imagery as in symbolism? I reckon a good thesis could be written about recurring symbolism in pop music and its roots in the blues (read ''The Land Where Blues Began'' by Alan Lomax).

Another angle on that could be an investigation why there is such a limited vocabulary of symbols in music today and what it reflects about how we think and what we're thinking about as a society. Why is it always highways, cars, cages, prisons, celebrity, angels etc?

Why is it always highways, cars, cages, prisons, celebrity, angels etc?

cause all that shit gets you laid

I'll just mention Greil Marcus and hope somebody explores this... there's alot of it in regards to Dylan. the Dean of English at Oxford University just wrote a huge book on 'Sin and Redemption in Dylan's songs'... looks a bit heavy. i'd love for somebody to write about the Catholic imagery in stuff like Springsteen.....

Not a theorist, but a photographer ruminates on archetypes in band photos.

nice...has anyone expanded that with examples?

Thanks fer the help guys, but it proved to be a non-starter. I've changed my topic.

dang

Yeah, i've found that it is much easier to look at shampoo adverts

hahahahahaha, my migraine is killing me, and reading ''Yeah, i've found that it is much easier to look at shampoo adverts'' just did not help.

So have you gone into the whole 'washing hair equals sexual gratification?'

So have you gone into the whole 'washing hair equals sexual gratification?'

Its so unsubtle it hurts

I'd still like the original question answered just for the hell of it

Yeah, the language used in hair product adverts is much easier to study than pages of ambiguous lyrics.

I'm looking at the M/F divide. Men usualy get active verbs like ''fight'', whereas women get either adjectives such as ''lushous'' or are intimidated with phrases telling them their hair is important to their survival