Music at the extremes : essays on sounds outside the mainstream / edited by Scott A. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Scott A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extreme metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Extreme metal (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Wa

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hush, May I Ask You All for Silence? (Scott A. Wilson); Elitist Aesthetics: Extreme Metal Fans as Taste-Makers and Gate-Keepers (Damion Sturm); Noise as Power: Bad Brains and the Aesthetics of Race in Hardcore Punk (Shayna Maskell); The Bodies of Metal: Imaginaries, Aesthetics and Shadows (Alessandro Porrovecchio); Power Electronics and Conventionally Transgressive Assembly Work (Andrew Whelan); Laibach Is Laibach: Overidentification as Dissensus in Neue Slowenische Kunst (Janus C. Currie)

Scandinavian Heavy Metal as an Intertextual Play with Norse Mythology (Anna G. Piotrowska)Black Metal, Forked Tongue: Satanism, Paganism and the Persistence of the Medieval (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter); Where Myth and Metal Collide: Finnish Folk Metal (Tai Neilson); "In the Name of Satan": Violence, Extreme Metal and Young People in Colombia in the '80s and '90s (Saul Mauricio Rodriguez- Hernandez); The (Un)Popularity of White-Power Music (Kirsten Dyck); "The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare": Industrial Masculinity and Coil (Gregory Steirer)

Heavy Metal's Ironic Edge: Distortion, Demonization and Noise Control (Sabatino DiBernardo)Blossoms Will Sprout from the Carcass: Ecological Thinking in American Black Metal (Kyle Koeppe); Doused with Scorn and Dollars: Insane Clown Posse's Paradox of Cool and the Culture Industry (Rahima Schwenkbeck); Outlaw Christ: Sacred Revolt in the Work of GG Allin (Thomas Fabisiak and Joseph Laycock); About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, discographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 25, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4766-2006-7