Black Sabbath and the carnival cronotope

Abstract

The carnival, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, is the ultimate goal of social activities, since it is in the chronotope of the carnival festivity that the human being manages to achieve the idyllic triumph of a temporary liberation.
The feeling of attraction towards the transgression of paradigms, the scandal, the irreverence, the paganization of religious myths, as well as the desacralization of power figures, make Heavy Metal a modern archetype of medieval carnival, space - time that the band English Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath, will become the chronotope of his song entitled "Heaven and Hell", whose foundation is to direct towards a transitory catharsis through the musical show.
The cronotope, is a literary category coined by Bajtin to call the "essential interlinking of temporal and spatial relationships" (Beristáin, 2010, p.117), in which time becomes historical as long as it occurs in a given space, which is marked by the signs of the development of human history, that is, by a particular society. In short, the chronotope is defined as the space - time that propitiates the particular conditions for a historical (social) event to occur.