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Metal Music Studies 5.3 has just landed
Friday, September 13, 2019

Metal Music Studies 5.3 has just landed

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 5.3 has just landed!

For more information about the issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/metal-music-studies

Aims & Scope

This peer-reviewed journal provides a focus for research and theory in metal music studies, a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines. It provides a platform for high-quality research and theory and aims to be a unique resource for metal music studies. It is the intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies.

Issue 5.3

Editorial

Metal and Musicology 
LEWIS F. KENNEDY AND M. SELIM YAVUZ 

Section One: Articles 

Defining contemporary metal music: Performance, sounds and practices 
MARK MYNETT

Terminology issues with the poïetic aspect of vocals in heavy metal studies: A suggestion for a multidisciplinary approach 
PAOLO RIBALDINI

Breaking down the breakdown in twenty-first century metal 
STEVEN GAMBLE

Harmonic function and modality in classic heavy metal 
ESA LILJA

‘Ancien folklore québécois’: An analysis of the phonographic and identity-based narrative of the métal noir québécois community
MÉI-RA ST-LAURENT

Distortion, restriction and instability: Violence against the self in depressive suicidal black metal 
OWEN COGGINS 

Section Two: Short Article 

Heavy metal music and managing mental health: Heavy Metal Therapy 
KATE QUINN 

Conference Report

World Metal Congress, Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London, 21–22 March 2019 
JOSHUA RETALLICK, NIALL SCOTT, ALEXANDER MILAS, TOM O’BOYLE, STEFANO BARONE AND LINA KHATIB