Multilingual metal music : sociocultural, linguistic and literary perspectives on heavy metal lyrics / edited by Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi (University College London, UK and Uppsala University, Sweden), Charlotte Doesburg and Amanda DiGioia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa, editor.

Doesburg, Charlotte, editor.

DiGioia, Amanda, editor.

Series:

Emerald studies in metal music and culture.

Emerald studies in metal music and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--Social aspects.

Heavy metal (Music).

Music and language.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

This multi-disciplinary book explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English including Japanese, Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, Austrian German, and Norwegian. Topics covered include national and minority identity, politics, wordplay, parody, local/global, intertextuality, and adaptation.

Contents:

Part I: Texts and intertextuality

Chapter 1: Yiddish metal as a manifestation of postvernacularity

Chapter 2: Baudelaire and black metal: performing poetry under Perestroika

Part II: National, cultural and minority identity

Chapter 3: Større enn tid, tyngre enn natt the interplay of language and cultural identity in the lyrics of Norwegian metal bands

Chapter 4: Spanish and non-Spanish perspectives on El Cid in heavy metal: identity vindication, cultural appropriation and Islamophobia

Chapter 5: At the crossroads of Nordic traditions and languages: the representation of the Swedish-speaking Finn community in Finnish heavy metal

Part III: Processing oppression, war, and bereavement

Chapter 6: Poetic analysis of the anti-war song Muerte en Mostar by the spanish heavy metal band desafio

Chapter 7: Vocalizing a troubled past: a case study of political activism in Taiwanese metal

Chapter 8: Til Opalsøens Dyb 'To the depths of Opal Lake': on bereavement, locality, and intimacy in Danish black metal lyrics by Orm

Part IV: Local, global, authentic, and funny

Chapter 9: I Custodi dell'Accaio Inox: language as an interface between the global and the local in Italian 'heavy metal demenziale'

Chapter 10: The paradoxical usage of Austrian dialects of German in metal music

Chapter 11: Delusions of grandeur? producing authentic metal music in the Soviet Union

Chapter 12: Is kawaii metal? Exploring aidoru/metal fusion through the lyrics of babymetal

Part V: Ancient languages and mythology

Chapter 13: Nata vimpi curmi da: dead languages and primordial nationalisms in folk metal music

Chapter 14: Verba Bestiae: how Latin conquered heavy metal

Chapter 15: Local folk tales, legends, and slavic mythology in Slovenian heavy metal lyrics: a quantitative analysis

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781839099489

1839099488

9781839099502

183909950X