Covid19, metal studies, and oral history research: A methodological rant
In my last blog post, I attempted to describe the thoroughly digitalized research environment I discovered in our project on […]
The digital metal historian
Since about 2000, digitalization has become the major transforming force of our social world. Today, using social media – Facebook, […]
What lies ahead in 2021: Empirical fieldwork
For my project on the metal scene in Graz and Styria since 1980, I am currently finalizing the framework for […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the history of the ‘metal ear’ and methodological ‘distant listening’
Currently, I am in a phase of revising some older texts on metal cultural history. During these revisions I realized […]
Interdisciplinarity, crossover, black metal theory: a single cultural history
Next week will see the 2019 edition of the black metal theory symposium in Ljubljana on 18 and 19 April. […]
1914, ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’: How to represent history in (extreme) metal?
Recently, the Ukranian black and doom metal group 1914 issued their new long-player The Blind Leading the Blind. According to […]