An international study of metal music communities and subcultures.
This edited volume expands the research in the field of metal studies by examining metal music communities around the world, from Dayton, Ohio to Estonia to post-apartheid South Africa and beyond. The chapters are detailed, richly embedded in local histories and contexts, and provide important analyses of their respective scenes. The diversity of the chapters connects metal to other disciplines in the music field and a foreword by Henkka Seppälä, former bassist of the Finnish extreme metal band Children of Bodom, accompanies the essays. Living Metal is a groundbreaking contribution to the field, with much appeal for fans and scholars of metal music as well as those in the fields of anthropology, musicology, and history.
Edited by:
Bryan Bardine (University of Dayton USA),
Jerome Stueart
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 694g
ISBN: 9781789384000
ISBN 10: 1789384001
Series: Advances in Metal Music and Culture
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 20 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
Professional and scholarly
,
ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Acknowledgements List of Figures Foreword Henkka Seppala, M.A. Introduction Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Dr. Jerome Stueart, Chapter 1: From The Ashes of the Fallen Empire: Heavy Metal and Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edward Banchs, MA Chapter 2: Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World Dr. Catherine Hoad Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Conceptualizing Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological ‘Other’ Dr. Pierre Hecter and Douglas Mattsson, M.A. Chapter 4: ‘Métal noir épique patriotique’: Analysis of historical, sociological and cultural discourses uniting metal noir québécois and Québec society. Mei-Ra St. Laurent, PhD Chapter 5: Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c. 1980 to the Present Dr. Peter Pichler Chapter 6: Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and Then Dr. Kei Saito Chapter 7: Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal Undergrounds Dr. Tore’ Tvarno Lind Chapter 8: ""Dit is Berlin"":[1] Local metal scene building and transformation in Berlin, Germany Dr. Wolf-Georg Zaddach Chapter 9: Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Jacob Hale, M.A. Chapter 10: La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the Nantes Heavy Metal Music Scene Dr. Gerome Guibert and Dr. Sophie Turbe’ Chapter 11: Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and Present Dr. Toni-Matti Karjalainen Chapter 12: From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: The Heavy Metal And the Music Scene in the ABC Region of Brazil (1980-1990) Rui Luiz Ferreira Granado, M.A. and Dr. Heloisa de Aaujo Duarte Valente Chapter 13 : ‘This Is the City of Hate’: Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore Scene Dr. Lewis Kennedy "
Bryan Bardine is associate professor of English at the University of Dayton, where he teaches courses in metal studies, composition, pedagogy, and American and Gothic literature. Jerome Stueart is assistant professor of English (Creative Writing) at Thomas More University, and is a freelance writer, editor, and artist living in Northern Kentucky. His writing has been nominated for a number of awards, including the World Fantasy Award.
Reviews for Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World
'As heavy metal is diversifying within a music culture in which active fan participation is crucial in cementing its longevity, these books are not just an excellent read for casual metal fans, but important for present and future heavy music scholars. [...] These books demonstrate not just how the music is produced and performed within non-Western countries, but also how the genre and culture serve to strengthen the global heavy music community.' Reviewed alongside Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America. -- Laina Dawes, The Wire 'In the introduction Bardine and Stueart suggest eight questions for scholars interested in doing future research in the global metal scene. As the editors suggest, Living Metal offers readers new tools and methods to pursue these questions. – Recommended.' -- CHOICE