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Staci and cohost Marco Mannone interview Peter Bebergal. He studied religion at Brandeis and Harvard Divinity School and is the author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll. From The Beatles to Black Sabbath, this fascinating book shows how the marriage between mysticism and music changed the world. Peter talks about the mysticism behind rock artists like David Bowie and Jimmy Page, plus lesser-known music/occult figures like Arthur Brown (“I am the god of hellfire!”). Staci and Marco discuss Marco's short story “Hell-A Woman” in Rock & Roll Nightmares: Along Comes Scary, the '60s Edition, and his brand-new novella, The Haunting of Nicolas Cage. Lastly, Staci reads from Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, recounting one of Keith Moon's many misadventures.
In this episode my guest is author Peter Bebergal, who joined me to discuss his 2018 book Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural. In that work he explores the various ways people have tried to use technology to better understand and communicate with the supernatural along with the engineers, inventors and seers who were fascinated by those mysteries. Peter has written extensively on a range of fringe and Fortean subjects, with essays and reviews featuring in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, The Believer and The Quietus. He is also the author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll and has recently edited Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons, due out early next year. This is a wide ranging chat, covering magic, technology, myth and science. Something for everyone, I hope! Peter can be found on Twitter as @peterbebergal and his books are available from all good book retailers. You can now donate to Some Other Sphere via Kofi. To buy the podcast a coffee, please go to https://ko-fi.com/someotherspherepodcast. Thank you! The Some Other Sphere intro music is from Purple Planet Music - 'Hubbub' by Geoff Harvey and Chris Martyn.
Peter Bebergal, author of such books as Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll and Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural, pops in to talk the occult, David Bowie, golems, and the time he tried to communicate with the ghost of his late father using electronic voice phenomena (EVP). Frank Sivilli also brings some astrological elections for the coming days and I talk about the use of audio in curses.
Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors Wherein I review: 154. Worst. Person. Ever by Douglas Coupland 155. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal 156. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 157. The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes #3) by Richard K. Morgan 158. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) by Patrick O'Brian TRIPLE CANNONBALL ACHIEVED
Peter Bebergal is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the author of the new book Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll. During this week's show, Peter and Chauncey discuss the appeal of magic and the occult for musicians and artists, the moral panics about Satanism and heavy metal music during the 1980s in America, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, as well as how African trickster figures and other cultural practices influenced black music in America and across the Black Atlantic. Peter and Chauncey also talk about digital versus analog culture and the history of pen and paper as well as tabletop role-playing games. Friend of the podcast Jared Yates Sexton, contributing writer for publications such as The New Republic as well as The New York Times, also stops by to make his predictions (and share some concerns) about this weekend's WWE Wrestlemania 33 event. On this week's show, Chauncey also shares his thoughts about some new data from this year's General Social Survey which shows that Republicans still believe that black people are dumb, lazy, and stupid. During this week's podcast, Chauncey also reads the obituary of Bill Minor, a journalist and a great white brother in the Black Freedom Struggle who passed away several days ago.
INTERVIEW STARTS AT 8:12 - Author Peter Bebergal calls into the show to talk about his book “Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll”, a fascinating in-depth look at how ancient arcane symbols and teachings influenced the most popular genre of music in western culture. Peter is on Twitter @peterbebergal. Buy his books on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Theme music: Vestron Vulture - “I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)” | Vestron Vulture online: Bandcamp | SoundCloud | YouTube Read the OCCULTURE blog. Follow OCCULTURE on social media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Snapchat OCCULTURE streaming options: iTunes | YouTube | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Play Music | SoundCloud This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Love Yourself | Think for Yourself | Question Authority
This week we delve into your intrepid host's longtime fascination with the occult and rock and roll by interviewing the guy who literally wrote the book about it. Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, comes on to talk about the history of occultism in popular music from the days of slavery up to modern heavy metal. Then Duane and Desmond review one of the best films from last year, Deathgasm. Devil Dinosaur Jr. gives us a brand new Stay Scary on Satan's Slave, while Rich the Monster Movie Kid continues his month-long look at the more obscure horror films from genre legends with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Nothing but the Night. There are always songs, and this week would be a really stupid week to change that: "Season of the Witch" by Donovan, "The White Witch of Rose Hall" by Coven, "Bad for Good" by Skull Fist, "Satan Prayer" by Ghost, "Nothing but the Night" by Grave Cross, and "Deathgasm" by Bulletbelt. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.278.5257. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.stayscary.wordpress.com and www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com.
This week we delve into your intrepid host's longtime fascination with the occult and rock and roll by interviewing the guy who literally wrote the book about it. Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, comes on to talk about the history of occultism in popular music from the days of slavery up to modern heavy metal. Then Duane and Desmond review one of the best films from last year, Deathgasm. Devil Dinosaur Jr. gives us a brand new Stay Scary on Satan's Slave, while Rich the Monster Movie Kid continues his month-long look at the more obscure horror films from genre legends with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Nothing but the Night. There are always songs, and this week would be a really stupid week to change that: "Season of the Witch" by Donovan, "The White Witch of Rose Hall" by Coven, "Bad for Good" by Skull Fist, "Satan Prayer" by Ghost, "Nothing but the Night" by Grave Cross, and "Deathgasm" by Bulletbelt. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.278.5257. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.stayscary.wordpress.com and www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com.
This week we delve into your intrepid host's longtime fascination with the occult and rock and roll by interviewing the guy who literally wrote the book about it. Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, comes on to talk about the history of occultism in popular music from the days of slavery up to modern heavy metal. Then Duane and Desmond review one of the best films from last year, Deathgasm. Devil Dinosaur Jr. gives us a brand new Stay Scary on Satan's Slave, while Rich the Monster Movie Kid continues his month-long look at the more obscure horror films from genre legends with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Nothing but the Night. There are always songs, and this week would be a really stupid week to change that: "Season of the Witch" by Donovan, "The White Witch of Rose Hall" by Coven, "Bad for Good" by Skull Fist, "Satan Prayer" by Ghost, "Nothing but the Night" by Grave Cross, and "Deathgasm" by Bulletbelt. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.278.5257. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.stayscary.wordpress.com and www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com.
This week we delve into your intrepid host's longtime fascination with the occult and rock and roll by interviewing the guy who literally wrote the book about it. Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, comes on to talk about the history of occultism in popular music from the days of slavery up to modern heavy metal. Then Duane and Desmond review one of the best films from last year, Deathgasm. Devil Dinosaur Jr. gives us a brand new Stay Scary on Satan's Slave, while Rich the Monster Movie Kid continues his month-long look at the more obscure horror films from genre legends with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Nothing but the Night. There are always songs, and this week would be a really stupid week to change that: "Season of the Witch" by Donovan, "The White Witch of Rose Hall" by Coven, "Bad for Good" by Skull Fist, "Satan Prayer" by Ghost, "Nothing but the Night" by Grave Cross, and "Deathgasm" by Bulletbelt. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.278.5257. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.stayscary.wordpress.com and www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com.
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Author Peter Bebergal returns to discuss his new new book Season Of The Witch Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock & Roll. Mr. Bebergal and Dwyer explore when Rock took the turn towards the dark, the taboos associated with Occult imagery, the importance of album covers and Dungeons & Dragons as a midlife crisis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jim and Greg celebrate Halloween by dabbling in the dark arts with Peter Bebergal, author of "Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll." Later they review a new release from Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks.