Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498506380 (ISBN)
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It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and musicians frequently identify as part of a collective group, larger than any particular individual. Still, when examined in detail, the idea raises more questions than answers. What criteria are used to define groups of people as part of the community? How are metal communities formed and maintained through time? How do metal communities interact with local cultures throughout the world? How will metal communities change over the lifespan of their members? Are metal communities even possible in light of the importance placed on individualism in this musical genre? These are just some of the questions that arise when the concept of “community” is used in relation to heavy metal music. And yet in the face of all these complexities, heavy metal fans continue to think of themselves as a unified collective entity.
This book addresses this notion of “metal community” via the experiences of authors and fans through theoretical reflections and empirical research. Their contributions focus on how metal communities are conceptualized, created, shaped, maintained, interact with their context, and address internal tensions. The book provides scholars, and other interested in the field of metal music studies, with a state of the art reflection on how metal communities are constituted, while also addressing their limits and future challenges.
Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at the Florida International University. Niall Scott is senior lecturer in ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.
Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience – Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall Scott
Part 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing Collectiveness
Chapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena Weinstein
Chapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We’ll Destroy the House! - Niall Scott
Chapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy Wallach
Part 2: Strengthening Community
Chapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti Karjalainen
Chapter 5: “We’re in this Together and We Take Care of our Own”: Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula Rowe
Part 3: Communities in Contextual Interaction
Chapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric Morales
Part 4: Tensions withi
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2016 |
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| Co-Autor | Esther Clinton, Brian Hickam, Kathryn Jezer-Morton |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b/w photos; 4 tables; |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781498506380 / 9781498506380 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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