Sound, symbol, sociality : the aesthetic experience of extreme metal music / Matthew P. Unger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unger, Matthew P., author.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave Pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extreme metal (Music).

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

"Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical community, this book interprets aesthetic resonances as a way to understand contemporary identity, politics, and social relations. In the end, this book develops a unique argument: the internal composition of the community's music and sound moulds symbols that shape, reflect, and constrain social patterns of identity, difference, and transgression. This book contributes to the sociology of sound and music, the study of religion in popular culture, and the role of aesthetics in everyday life. It will be of interest to upper level students, post-graduate students and scholars of religion, popular culture, and philosophy." --back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

A genre of paradoxes and dichotomies

Defilement and social theory

Post-secular aesthetics and the symbolic constitution of extreme metal music

The modalities of defilement within extreme metal

The symbolic experience of Christian extreme metal

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibiliographical references (pages 119-125) and index.

ISBN:

9781137478344

1137478349

OCLC:

959031524