Hispanic Epic Themes in Metal Music
Hispanic Epic Themes in Metal Music (Book)
Intersections with Pop Culture, Group Identity, Nationalisms, and Fascism
Epics create communal feelings through admiration of heroism. Metal music, pop culture, nationalisms, and fascism rely on epic narratives to build their communities. This book explores how the coincidences with nationalism and fascism put the epic narratives of metal under suspicion and the consequences (ethical and political) for the scene.
Edition
Epics create communal feelings through admiration of heroism. Metal music, pop culture, nationalisms, and fascism rely on epic narratives to build their communities. This book explores how the coincidences with nationalism and fascism put the epic narratives of metal under suspicion and the consequences (ethical and political) for the scene.
This Open Access publication is funded by the research project PoeMAS: POEsía para MÁS gente. La poesía en la música popular española contemporánea (PGC2018-099641-A-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades de España).
Amaranta Saguar García is a research professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her interest in metal music studies arises from her research on the reception of Medieval Hispanic topics in popular music.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Context
Chapter 2. Epicism and Heavy Metal
Chapter 3. Hispanic Medieval Epic Themes
Chapter 4. Five Types of Metal Epicism
Conclusions
