Living Metal
Living Metal (Book)
Metal Scenes around the World
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. 36 b&w illus.
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This is the first study of its kind, focusing exclusively on scenes throughout the world; it makes an important contribution to metal studies.
Metal Scenes around the World is a collection of thirteen chapters that examine metal scenes from smaller communities like Dayton, Ohio in the USA, to entire countries, such as Estonia. The goal of the book is to expand the research on metal scenes.
This is the only book produced on metal scenes to date, and it will lead the way to more research in this new area of metal studies. The strongest element of the book is its international focus, with chapters from such diverse settings as post-apartheid South Africa, Graz, Nantes, Brazil and Turkey. The chapters are detailed, richly embedded in local histories and contexts, and provide important analyses of their respective scenes.
Foreword from Henkka Seppälä, former bassist with the Finnish metal band Children Of Bodom.
Primary readership will be composed of fans and scholars of metal music, and those in the fields of anthropology, musicology and history. The diversity of the chapters connects metal to other disciplines in the music field and the book is likely to have appeal more widely to anyone who likes music.
Bryan Bardine is associate professor of English at the University of Dayton, where he teaches courses in metal studies, composition, pedagogy, and American and Gothic literature.
Jerome Stueart is assistant professor of English (Creative Writing) at Thomas More University, and is a freelance writer, editor, and artist living in Northern Kentucky. His writing has been nominated for a number of awards, including the World Fantasy Award.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Foreword
Henkka Seppala, M.A.
Introduction
Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Dr. Jerome Stueart,
Chapter 1: From The Ashes of the Fallen Empire: Heavy Metal and Community in
Post-Apartheid South Africa
Edward Banchs, MA
Chapter 2: Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World
Dr. Catherine Hoad
Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Conceptualizing Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological
‘Other’
Dr. Pierre Hecter and Douglas Mattsson, M.A.
Chapter 4: ‘Métal noir épique patriotique’: Analysis of historical, sociological and cultural discourses uniting metal noir québécois and Québec society.
Mei-Ra St. Laurent, PhD
Chapter 5: Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c. 1980 to the Present
Dr. Peter Pichler
Chapter 6: Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and Then
Dr. Kei Saito
Chapter 7: Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal
Undergrounds Dr. Tore’ Tvarno Lind
Chapter 8: "Dit is Berlin":[1] Local metal scene building and transformation in Berlin,
Germany
Dr. Wolf-Georg Zaddach
Chapter 9: Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene
Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Jacob Hale, M.A.
Chapter 10: La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the Nantes
Heavy Metal Music Scene
Dr. Gerome Guibert and Dr. Sophie Turbe’
Chapter 11: Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and Present
Dr. Toni-Matti Karjalainen
Chapter 12: From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: The Heavy Metal
And the Music Scene in the ABC Region of Brazil (1980-1990)
Rui Luiz Ferreira Granado, M.A. and Dr. Heloisa de Aaujo Duarte Valente
Chapter 13 : ‘This Is the City of Hate’: Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore Scene
Dr. Lewis Kennedy
'As heavy metal is diversifying within a music culture in which active fan participation is crucial in cementing its longevity, these books are not just an excellent read for casual metal fans, but important for present and future heavy music scholars. [...] These books demonstrate not just how the music is produced and performed within non-Western countries, but also how the genre and culture serve to strengthen the global heavy music community.'
Reviewed alongside Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America.
'In the introduction Bardine and Stueart suggest eight questions for scholars interested in doing future research in the global metal scene. As the editors suggest, Living Metal offers readers new tools and methods to pursue these questions. – Recommended.'
