Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

Herausgeber: Varas-Díaz, Nelson; Scott, Niall W R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book critically examines the issue of community formation in metal music. Via theoretical reflections on communal formation and empirical research in the field, scholars interested in extreme music and community formation will become familiar with this particular collective experience, now prevalent throughout the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781498506380
• ISBN-10: 1498506380
• Artikelnr.: 45189028

Autorenporträt

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at the Florida International University. Niall Scott is senior lecturer in ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience - Nelson Varas-Díaz
and Niall Scott
Part 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing Collectiveness
Chapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena
Weinstein
Chapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play
and We'll Destroy the House! - Niall Scott
Chapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther
Clinton and Jeremy Wallach
Part 2: Strengthening Community
Chapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring
Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti Karjalainen
Chapter 5: "We're in this Together and We Take Care of our Own": Narrative
Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula Rowe
Part 3: Communities in Contextual Interaction
Chapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music
and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid
Mendoza and Eric Morales
Part 4: Tensions withi