“I, the mask”: A concert under the conditions of the ‘Covid19’ pandemic
Last Saturday, for the first time since March 2020, I attended a metal show at Explosiv youth centre in Graz, […]
Styria: the local ‘metallic association chain’
In my last post, I wrote that in our research project on the Styrian metal scene we now progress from […]
Politics, values, norms, and ethics in metal and metal studies: ‘Reflexive anti-reflexivity’ has a history!
Our project on metal and law at the University of Graz is advancing. We are even a bit ahead of […]
Maggie Thatcher made heavy metal (…and she saw that it was good?)
Original source: cover picture of Iron Maiden, ‘Sanctuary’, (c) EMI 1980. Obviously, the title of this new blog post, which […]
Beavis & Butthead and the law, or: How norm-related sonic knowledge works
In an earlier post, I wrote about heuristics in our project. The aim was to describe a conceptual framework, which […]
Introduction clip research project “norm-related sonic knowledge”
Corona is locking me in at home…I am messing around a bit with what YouTube can do for me and […]
Wittgenstein, Davidson and Halford: the heuristics of studying norm-related sonic knowledge
This is the first post, which ‘officially’ discusses my research in the new project ‘Norm-related sonic knowledge in Heavy Metal […]
Oral history as a method in research on local metal scenes
This week, I started working in the research project ‘Norm-Related Sonic Knowledge in Heavy Metal Culture: A Case Study of the […]
“Too late, too late…?” On the norm-related sonic knowledge of female aggression
Female emancipation in metal – too late? In 1979, Motörhead released the song ‘Too Late Too Late’ as a b-side […]
‘Fandom’ and ‘scholarship’: Comparing two cultural-historical institutions
I ended my last post on the paradox at the heart of metal studies with the suggestion that cultural history, […]