Infernal Music

1. What is the connection between music and the devil?
• Talk about Reversals: Led Zeppelin and the Stairway to Heaven
• Judge for yourself
• More on Stairway and Reverse Speech
  
2. Virtuosity: The Example of Niccolo Paganini
   

3. Three Deals with the Devil
   • Giuseppe Tartini's Dream and the Devil's Sonata
   • Tommy Johnson's Pact
   • Tenacious D: Tribute
   • view "Tribute
   • BMW ad featuring James Brown
   • Will Farrell on SNL
     

4. Legba and the Devil: The Syncretistic Diabology of the Delta
5. Personifying Legba: Faust, Melancholy, and the Blues
   • "Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)"

6. Me and the Devil Blues: Robert Johnson

   • Robert Johnson at the Crossroads
   • Lyrics and critical essays
   
   
7. The Johnson Mystique: Trick the Devil