Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience (eBook)

Niall W.R. Scott, Nelson Varas-Diaz (Herausgeber)

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2016
230 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498506397 (ISBN)

Infos

The book critically examines the issue of community formation in metal music. Via theoretical reflections on communal formation and empirical research in the field, scholars interested in extreme music and community formation will become familiar with this particular collective experience, now prevalent throughout the world.

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It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the "e;metal community"e;. 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 "e;metal community"e; 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 "e;community"e; 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 "e;metal community"e; 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience – Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall ScottPart 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing CollectivenessChapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena WeinsteinChapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We’ll Destroy the House! - Niall ScottChapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy WallachPart 2: Strengthening CommunityChapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti KarjalainenChapter 5: “We’re in this Together and We Take Care of our Own”: Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula RowePart 3: Communities in Contextual InteractionChapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric MoralesPart 4: Tensions within the Communal ExperienceChapter 7: Exploring the Language and Spectacle of Online Hate Speech in the Black Metal Scene: Developing Theoretical and Methodological Intersections between the Social Sciences and the Humanities - Vivek Venkatesh, Bradley J. Nelson, Tieja Thomas, Jason J. Wallin, Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Christopher Thompson, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Jihan Rabah, Kathryn Urbaniak and Méi-Ra St. LaurentChapter 8 : What Did the Norwegians Ever Do For Us? Actor-Network Theory, the Second Wave of Black Metal and the Imaginary Community of Heavy Metal - Karl SpracklenPart 5: Expanding the Community beyond Previously Thought BordersChapter 9: Do Metal Scenes Need Retirement Homes? Care and the Limitations of Metal Community - Keith Kahn-HarrisChapter 10: A Shared Madness: The Joint Ownership of Heavy Metal History and Studies - Brian Hickam

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2016
• Co-Autor: Esther Clinton, Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Jihan Raban, Paula Rowe, Karl Spracklen, Tieja Thomas, Christopher Thompson, Kathryn Urbaniak, Vivek Venkatesh, Jeremy Wallach, Jason J. Wallin, Brian Hickam, Deena Weinstein, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Keith Kahn-Harris, Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Mei-Ra St. Laurent, Sigrid Mendoza, Eric Morales, Bradley J. Nelson
• Zusatzinfo: 11 Illustrations including: - 3 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Community • groups • Heavy metal • Metal • music • Music and Community
• ISBN-13: 9781498506397 / 9781498506397