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Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498506397
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heavy Metal Music and the Communal ExperienceDDC classification:
  • 306.48426
LOC classification:
  • ML3918.R63 -- .H438 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience -- Part 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing Collectiveness -- Chapter One: Communities of Metal -- Chapter Two: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction -- Chapter Three: Talking Metal -- Part 2: Strengthening Community -- Chapter Four: Ride Between Hell and Paradise -- Chapter Five: "We're in This Together and We Take Care of Our Own" -- Part 3: Communities in Contextual Interaction -- Chapter Six: Porous Communities -- Part 4: Tensions Within the Communal Experience -- Chapter Seven: Exploring the Language and Spectacle of Online Hate Speech in the Black Metal Scene -- Chapter Eight: What Did the Norwegians Ever Do for Us? -- Part 5: Expanding the Community Beyond Previously Thought Borders -- Chapter Nine: Do Metal Scenes Need Retirement Homes? -- Chapter Ten: A Shared Madness -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience -- Part 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing Collectiveness -- Chapter One: Communities of Metal -- Chapter Two: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction -- Chapter Three: Talking Metal -- Part 2: Strengthening Community -- Chapter Four: Ride Between Hell and Paradise -- Chapter Five: "We're in This Together and We Take Care of Our Own" -- Part 3: Communities in Contextual Interaction -- Chapter Six: Porous Communities -- Part 4: Tensions Within the Communal Experience -- Chapter Seven: Exploring the Language and Spectacle of Online Hate Speech in the Black Metal Scene -- Chapter Eight: What Did the Norwegians Ever Do for Us? -- Part 5: Expanding the Community Beyond Previously Thought Borders -- Chapter Nine: Do Metal Scenes Need Retirement Homes? -- Chapter Ten: A Shared Madness -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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