Medievalism and Metal Music Studies : throwing down the gauntlet /
This edited collection investigates metal music's enduring fascination with the medieval period from a variety of critical perspectives, exploring how metal musicians and fans use the medieval period as a fount for creativity and critique.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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United Kingdom :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2019.
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| Series: | Emerald studies in metal music and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Scott G. Bruce Introduction; Ruth Barratt-Peacock and Ross Hagen Section I: Metal's Medieval Frames Chapter 1. The Trans-Medial Fight for Glory; Johannes Hellrich, Christoph Rzymski, and Vitus Vestergaard Chapter 2. Medieval Media Transformations and Metal Album Covers; Vitus Vestergaard Chapter 3. Getting Medieval: Signifiers of the Middle-Ages in Black Metal Aesthetic; Eric Smialek Chapter 4. Computational Detection of Medieval References in Metal; Johannes Hellrich, and Christoph Rzymski Section II: Nationalism and Identity in Metal Medievalism Chapter 5. The Politics and Poetics of Metal's Medieval Pasts; Shamma Boyarin, Annika Christensen, Amaranta Saguar García, and Dean Swinford Chapter 6. The New Metal Medievalism: Alexander the Great, Islamic historiography and Nile's "Iskander Dhul Kharnon"; Shamma Boyarin Chapter 7. The Return of El Cid: The Topicality of Rodrigo Díaz in Spanish Heavy Metal; Amaranta Saguar García Chapter 8. Making Heritage Metal: Faroese Kvæði and Viking Metal; Annika Christensen Chapter 9. Black Metal's Medieval King: The Apotheosis of Euronymous through Album Dedications; Dean Swinford Section III: Historical Source Materials in Metal Musics Chapter 10. Finding the Past in the Present and the Present in the Past; Ruth Barratt-Peacock, Ross Hagen, and Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Chapter 11. Obsequiae: Reconciling 'Authentic' Medieval Musical Styles with Metal; Ross Hagen Chapter 12. The Villon that Never Was; Ruth Barratt-Peacock Chapter 13. Satanic Bowels: Medieval Inversion and the Black Metal Grotesque; Brenda S. Gardenour Walter.