Heavy Metal music and culture
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In this chapter, I turn to Mina Caputo, the vocalist of the long-running alternative metal band Life of Agony, as a case study to discuss how transgenderness is negotiated in contemporary heavy metal music. Taking my point of departure... more
"The music industry is undergoing extremely rapid structural change not of its own choosing, and record labels will no longer be able to rely on coercive seven-record deals and business methods that have remained unchanged since the... more
As the song ‘Havfruens Kvad’ by Svartsot (2010) confirms, medieval metal gave a new voice to mermaid mythology. The song has thematically little in common with the fairy tale Den lille havfrue, but does resonate with the Norse mythology... more
The music industry is undergoing extremely rapid structural change not of its own choosing and record labels will no longer be able to rely on coercive seven-record deals and business methods that have remained unchanged since the 1960s.... more
This article will present the results of a research project that aimed to examine the meanings and mechanisms behind the formation of a metal identity. This report is based on 38 interviews that were conducted at four festivals during the... more
My first paper on 'heaviness'
For over 50 years, the abrasive and confrontational genre of heavy metal has persisted as a series of global crises have emerged and deepened. I claim that the culture has a deeply existentialist tendency, which has driven a scathing... more
Black Sabbath's eponymous debut has been identified as amongst the first heavy metal records, and was certainly the first to introduce much of the dark imagery and lyrical content now synonymous with the genre. Their home town of Aston,... more
This paper examines the reception of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring across several media such as performances and recorded editions. Taking influence from both Richard Taruskin and Peter Hill, it demonstrates that by delivering... more
Draft paper to be published eventually as Till, Rupert (2012) Metal and the Beast: The adoption of apocalyptic imagery in heavy metal music. In: Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought. Bible in the Modern World (42).... more
El presente texto presenta los resultados de investigación de Jóvenes Investigadores galardonados por Colciencias y vinculados al Semillero Temático de Investigación en Juventudes. En el texto se abordan temáticas relacionadas a culturas... more
The articles collected in the book concern the works of selected musicians and bands of metal (counter)culture.
For anti-rock activists in the 1980s, lyrical descriptions and visual depictions that glorified and promoted violence, sex, drug and alcohol abuse, Satanism, and related forms of occult activity were symptomatic not only of the declining... more
This short rhetoric has been printed in issue 6 of Astral Noize.
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La música de cada época es producto de un proceso de influencias entre músicos y de cambios de técnicas musicales. Además el entorno social geográfico y político determina los sentimientos e ideas que la música de la época va a... more
Was free will or determinism responsible for the death of Elyse Marie Pahler?
Eugene Martone, his Fender Telecaster slung around his shoulder, walks tentatively onto the stage. He is here to play for the soul of his friend, bluesman Willie Brown, a harmonica player who in his youth made a deal with the Devil in... more
An introductory source document and some fragmentary notes towards a diagnostic ecopedagogical critique of American music.
Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December, 2016 For the first time in its history, Crossroads in Cultural Studies has come to the southern hemisphere. The 11th Association for Cultural... more
Kultura metalowa stanowi w rodzimych badaniach naukowych ciągle jeszcze obszar w niewielkim stopniu rozpoznany. Równocześnie jednak obserwujemy nieustające zainteresowanie redakcji mediów muzycznych oraz samych słuchaczy, fanów muzyki... more
This Master's dissertation aims to uncover the capacity for political expression within doom metal and willingness to make such expression amongst its proponents, and to identify trends within the genre that support social critique across... more
Tesis de licenciatura en Antropología Social. Algunas de las expresiones religiosas juveniles emergentes de la última década, han sido estudiadas a partir de las instituciones; como estrategias implementadas por estas para atraer y... more
Heavy metal and rap are the two most established popular music genres in the world. They are also the most studied and debated. Classified by social psychologists North and Hargreaves as ‘problem music’, heavy metal and rap have, for... more
Black Metal is an underground musical genre, descended from Heavy Metal and born in the late 80s in Scandinavia. In this dissertation, we are aiming to reconstruct its genesis before showing how it builds its aesthetics alongside the... more
An analysis of the trajectory of Brazilian metal band Sepultura's two first decades in the light of debates on nationhood, politics, and hybritity in music.
The aim of my MA thesis is to analize the relationship between Medieval Germanic texts and the modern German heavy metal scene. Three texts have been chosen: the "Hildebrandslied" (Old High German), Walther von der Vogelweide's... more
The aim of this article is to pay special attention to the character whose stage and artistic activities seem significant for the constitution of metal culture, the essence of the work being the countercultural characteristics of the... more
Origin, development, youth culture and identity in Metal music as an urban culture in Lima - Peru.
This is the typo-version of the submitted version of a guest section by Amanda DiGioia in Jasmine H. Shadrack's 'Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss'. Women, heavy metal music, and trauma are intimately... more
Murihiku/Southland, Aotearoa/New Zealand(NZ), is the western and southern most region of the country. Southland has a short but colourful history of whalers, sealers, bootleggers and gold miners from Northern Europe mixing with the... more
ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of Musicking in the Metal community in Guadalajara, México. I examine the construction of a Metal identity that bonds people from its origins in England in the 1960s to its present day status in Latin... more
Call for Papers 2022: Metal Music Studies in Central and Eastern Europe
This article argues that, in some specific cases, Finnish heavy metal lyrics are horror texts, and that mothers in Finnish heavy metal lyrics are often relegated to tropes, like being ‘othered’. This shows that motherhood in Finnish heavy... more
Analyzes the depictions of religion within metal music, lyrics, and imagery. Focuses specifically on how religious themes can be utilized to support political ideologies, including those considered 'extreme'
Using Freud and Lacan, this article proposes a psychoanalytic approach to the thrash metal band Slayer. It particularly focuses on the band's engagement with violence and perversion. The article starts by analysing Slayer in Freudian... more
"Se nos ve de negro vestidos. Siete enfoques sobre el heavy metal argentino" es un libro del Grupo Interdisciplinario sobre el Heavy Metal Argentino (GIIHMA). A partir de los ensayos aquí publicados, buscamos una aproximación al heavy... more
The aim of this paper is to analyze how current countercultural music bands, within the Andalusian underground scene and particularly in Seville, interpret and display their idea of folklore and tradition in southern Spain.
“Extreme” or “heavy” music genres such as those found in hardcore, death metal, and black metal (as well as alternative and progressive rock) reportedly hold a positive correlation between violence and aggression in youths (Binder, 1993;... more
A través del método etnohistórico y algunos abordajes teóricos interdisciplinarios, se plantea a la perspectiva emic en la que está inmersa el testimonio del autor como herramienta aprovechable junto a los otros testimonios recopilados... more
The lyrics of the American metal band Hatebreed seem to be preoccupied with a certain notion of the moment. In this paper it will be shown how this notion can be seen from a philosophical perspective, namely that of the Danish philosopher... more
Z recenzji prof. dra hab. Wojciecha Józefa Burszty: "Autor dokonuje dość skondensowanego [...] przeglądu pola badań nad rockiem i metalem w humanistyce krajowej i międzynarodowej, wskazując na pola dotąd - zwłaszcza w kraju - słabo lub w... more
En este trabajo exploraré la construcción de identidades y estereotipos sobre la escena metalera desde la pantalla chica. El cine, así como los programas televisivos, han jugado un papel fundamental en la reproducción del “canon”... more
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysrU0h9-OQ -------- Playlist for the paper: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rfwKnFjtpSWoOJZINwXSg -------- Paper for Conference "Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity", Brandeis... more