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Metal Music Studies 9.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 9.2 is out now!

Issue 9.2 sees the light following an active summer for the field of metal music studies. During 6–9 June 2023, the International Society for Metal Music Studies held its 6th Biennial Research Conference in Montreal, Canada. The event was organized by Dr Vivek Venkatesh and his team at Concordia University. The issue’s main section includes five articles addressing the topics of stadium rock, the identity construction of famous metal guitarists, the idea of heaviness, symphonic metal’s appropriation of the Baroque, and the creation of a metal scene in Bandung, Indonesia.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/metal-music-studies

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 9.2

Editorial

NELSON VARAS-DÍAZ, NEDIM HASSAN, ROSS HAGEN AND NIALL SCOTT

Section One

Articles

Joker to the thief: Trickster guitarists in 1970s stadium rock

MATTHEW BANNISTER

Death of a guitar hero: The art of metal reputation maintenance

BERNARD EAST

Lorna Shore’s ‘To the Hellfire’: A study in heaviness (Open Access)