Bruce Dickinson śpiewa song "Senjutsu"
Bruce Dickinson sings the song “Senjutsu”

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to interpret the Iron Maiden song “Senjutsu,” which is one of the mostimportant on the album of the same title (2021). The thesis of the study is that in this work, thetextual and musical persona – the performative subject of this text – tries to relate an extreme,borderline, liminal experience resulting from assuming the status of a war defender, forcedto fight the invader. It can be said, paraphrasing the title of the classic book by Barbara Major(2013), that Dickinson sings the symbolic habitus of Athena in a Leather Jacket – Explosion ofMetal Music Fury Affect. This metaphor for the fury of the Greek goddess of war is present inthe work of Iron Maiden. The hypothesis to be verified is the degree of presence of this issue inthe output of the English team; the research problem is, how was the subject of war dealt within the texts of Steve Harris’s works?

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