Living metal : metal scenes around the world / edited by Bryan Bardine and Jerome Stueart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bardine, Bryan, editor.

Stueart, Jerome, editor.

Series:

ISSN

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

This collection of thirteen essays is an exploration of metal scenes throughout the world, from Dayton to Hull, from Copenhagen to Osaka. Unique portrayal of how these scenes developed, are experienced by fans, and are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded. Foreword by Henkka Seppälä. 41 images.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World

Copyright Page

Table of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

References

1 From the Ashes of the Fallen Empire:: Heavy Metal and Community in Postapartheid South Africa

Black, white, and red all over

Gauteng's metal scene today

Methodology

Age, scene participation, and the communal experience

Race and gender

Metal and masculinity

Conclusion

Notes

2 Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World

Northernness meets metalness

Looking to the Southern edge of the world

Slaughterhouse gothic: Metal in Southland

Protestant gothic: Metal in Otago

The dark pastoral: Metal in Tasmania

3 The Enemy Within: Conceptualizing Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological "Other"

First encounters with the unknown

Satanic scare

"The final resistance?"

Internal otherization

Blasphemy and transgressive subcultural capital

Concluding remarks

4 "Métal noir épique patriotique": Analysis of Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Discourses Uniting métal noir québécois and Québec Society

Defining the concept of nationalism in the sociohistorical context of the province

The first period of the scene: The rise and development of black metal in the Province of Québec (1993-2000)

The musical and thematic characteristics of the groups

The independence question in the Québec society in the 1990s

The second period of the scene: The growth of the scene and the formation of the MNQ (2001-09)

The rise of MNQ community: Nationalism expressed through a narrative identity

The revival of the independentist question in Québec society (2001-09).

The third period of the scene: Between the stagnation and the professionalization of the black metal scene (2010-17)

The decline of the sovereigntist question in Québec society (2010-17)

The distinctions and similarities characterizing the narrative identity of the MNQ and of Québec society

5 Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c.1980 to the Present

The theoretical lens: The sound history and the sonic knowledge of local metal scenes

The sound history of the Styrian metal scene since the early 1980s: A chronological overview

"How exactly does this sound history work?": The Metal on the Hill festival in Graz as a recent example of the Styrian scene's sonic knowledge

6 Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and Then

Statistics and current musical situation

Japa-meta movement from/in Osaka and live-houses in the 1980s

Osaka/Tokyo narrative in Japanese heavy metal scene

Global connection

The transitional period: 1990s

Music schools/lessons in Osaka

Japanese scene after 2000

Current problem

Heavy metal record shops in Osaka

True Thrash Fest since 2009 and Asian connections

Acknowledgement

7 Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal Undergrounds

The ethnomusicologist and the mediation of black metal

The atmospheric black metal underground

Welfare system support

Oceanic black metal

Underground on Facebook

Stadium black

The Korpsånd scene at Mayhem

The Vort Fatum Festival

Heart of sadness

8 "Dit Is Berlin":1 Local Metal Scene Building and Transformation in Berlin, Germany.

Scene as socio-geographical concept

Berlin: The 1980s

Left of the wall

1989-90: Reunification and hybridization of once separated local scenes

Berlin: The 2010s

Development and (self-)perception as local scenes during the 1980s and the 2010s

(Self-)Perception of the metal scene in East Berlin during the 1980s

Diversification and fragmentation

professionalization and DIY: Underground in the 2010s

Political differentiation

9 Perspectives Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene

Background and methods

Literature review

Results from surveys and interviews

Early founders' perspectives on the scene

Newer members' perspectives on the scene

Connections/findings

Note

10 La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the Nantes Metal Music Scene

Some background on the city of Nantes

Heavy metal in France at the turn of the 1980s

The Nantes scene

The Plein Watt festival and the rising reputation of Nantes groups

The local scene

The end of the first Nantes heavy metal scene

Bottoming out

Hellfest as catalyst

Nantes, the French capital of metal

Visibility and structuring of the scene

11 Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and Present

The study

Overview of the current scene

Scene dispersion

Metal cohesion

Active bands and subgenres

The most influential bands

Active subgenres in the current scene

Scene makers, places, and events

Clubs and festivals

Key persons

Local-international division

Cohesions and divisions in the past

The first wave: Moshing the winds of change, late 1980s onwards

The low tide of the mid 1990s.

The second wave: The scene reestablished and blackened, late 1990s onwards

The low tide and the modern shift of late 2000s

The third wave: Modern metal versatilities of 2010s

Cohesion and divisions of the current scene

The activity of the scene today?

Historical divisions?

Estonian metal identity?

Epilogue

12 From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: Heavy Metal and the Music Scene of the Greater ABC Region (São Paulo/Brazil, 1980-90)

The beginning: Forged in dark years

Amplifier noises as a form of expression

Heavy metal and the ABC music scene

Specialized stores: More than a place to buy LPs

In the air: The weight of ABC heavy metal in radio waves

From the assembly line to the stages: The heavy metal shows in the ABC region

The end…or, uh, a fresh start?

13 "This Is the City of Hate": Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore Scene

Setting the scene

Studying the scene

Locating the scene

Characterizing the scene

Reinterpreting the scene

Conclusions

Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789384017

178938401X

9781789384024

1789384028

OCLC:

1285166998