Overview

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. 

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Author:   Bryan Bardine (University of Dayton, USA) ,  Jerome Stueart
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9781789384000

ISBN 10:   1789384001
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   12 April 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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    "

Reviews

'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

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 *

'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

Author Information

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.

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