This is a blog for the community of Rhetoric 108—On the Philosophy of Music: "Music to Hear"—in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2011 and Fall 2011.
The song is by the post apocalyptic folk band Current 93. The song is about heroin addiction and many tropes and images are enmeshed within the text that are contextualized within the rhetoric of addiction. One of these tropes deals with the figure of the horse, which was used as a euphemism that symbolized heroin. the figure of the hooves is used as a metonym to describe the life that was trampled by a horse, for a life destroyed by addiction. The Body and Blood of Christ are ironically used to symbolize the addicted body.
The song is by the post apocalyptic folk band Current 93. The song is about heroin addiction and many tropes and images are enmeshed within the text that are contextualized within the rhetoric of addiction. One of these tropes deals with the figure of the horse, which was used as a euphemism that symbolized heroin. the figure of the hooves is used as a metonym to describe the life that was trampled by a horse, for a life destroyed by addiction. The Body and Blood of Christ are ironically used to symbolize the addicted body.
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