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Metal Music Studies 8.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 8.2 is out now!

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Aims & Scope

Metal Music Studies is the journal of the International Society for Metal Music Studies.

The aims of the journal are:

• To provide an intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies and a vehicle to promote the development of metal music studies;

• To be the focus for research and theory in metal music studies – a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines, including (but not limited to) sociology, musicology, humanities, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, psychology, history, natural sciences;

• To publish high-quality, world-class research, theory and shorter articles that cross over from the industry and the scene;

• To be a world leader in interdisciplinary studies and be a unique resource for metal music studies.

Issue 8.2

Editorial

NIALL SCOTT, NELSON VARAS-DÍAZ AND NEDIM HASSAN

Section One

Articles

Hardcore punk as an effort to Indigenize the underground scene in La Paz during the neo-liberal era of resistance 1993–2003

REYNALDO TAPIA AND BORIS MENDOZA

Lost in the field: Lessons from metal music studies fieldwork in the Global South

DIDIER GOOSSENS, NELSON VARAS-DÍAZ AND EDWARD BANCHS

Establishing a taxonomy of metal subgenres based on quantitative musical and thematic features