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 […]
“Why does that guy research heavy metal?” – A short note on metal studies’ acceptance and self-representation within academic discourse
I just returned from an intriguing conference on Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the Mediterranean Shores in […]
‘Multilingual metal’: does metal have an own cultural-historical language?
Doubtless, metal music studies with its accelerating sequence of scholarly events, also its intensification of publication streams, is an emerging […]
A culture contested: is (or was) Metal a ‘youth culture’ and/or ‘subculture’?
Usually, Metal is referred to as a discourse of popular culture for and/or of young people, called a ‘youth culture’ […]