Concept Album – Be-tween Theory and Practice, Music and Literature. An Attempt at a Precise Definition and a Proposal for a Method of Analysing Coherence Mechanisms Cover Image

Koncept album – między teorią a praktyką i literaturą a muzyką. Próba wyostrzenia definicji i propozycja metody badania mechanizmów spójności
Concept Album – Be-tween Theory and Practice, Music and Literature. An Attempt at a Precise Definition and a Proposal for a Method of Analysing Coherence Mechanisms

Author(s): Kamil Barski
Subject(s): Music, Studies of Literature, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: concept album; music; literature; poetry; cycle; typology;

Summary/Abstract: In its title, this article indicates two purposes. The first is to attempt to give a precise description of the category of the concept album, whose specificity (also in the opinion of foreign researchers) is usually described in a blurred, intuitive and rather imprecise way. This attempt is made through reference to the literary side of this kind of album. Based on these reflections, the author also attempts to create a typology of concept albums, which constitutes a fluent transition to the second purpose of the article, namely to propose (in terms of this field of knowledge, which we call linguistics of text and discourse) a method for analysing the coherence mechanisms seen in lyrics of this sort of album. Although it is not a theory in the strict sense, the author’s intention was to lend it a practical usability: it is an operation whose purpose is to support the interpretation of concept albums.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 97-120
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish