Not All is Cold in Iceland

Type :

School essay

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

10/19/2007

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Arts and art history

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Summary :

Introduction
The essence of music
The integrity of music
Establishing authenticity in a foreign country
The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
Sonata Arctica's choice of language
Progressive metal
The exercise in character development and the authenticity
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

Humanity is nostalgic. There is no other way in which to explain the strips of antique malls in the Midwest or the string of collector shows on the shop-at-home networks. Like the sightseers searching for the Grand Canyon pictured on the poster in a local travel agency, humans are such experts on past experiences and expectations that they cannot help but attribute perfection to recreation of the old (Percy 589). Therefore, the easiest route to fame for a musician is to remind the audience of a musician who already found his or her route to fame. But where there is an easy route, there is also a hard route, a route that many bands, like Sonata Arctica, choose to follow. And when it comes to establishing sovereignty through authenticity, this band succeeds where others fail. Nothing modern can ever perfectly replicate something old. Sonata Arctica does not try to attain authenticity by imitating the bands that have come before them; instead, the band produces a voice that remains authentic to itself, a voice that generates its own sovereignty instead of borrowing from the past. A voice is only truly authentic when it seeks its authenticity through creation instead of through emulation.