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 […]
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 […]
‘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, […]
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 […]
On interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperations in metal music studies
Currently, I am putting final touches on the manuscript of my book on European metal cultural history.1 In this stage […]
Metal (music) studies: What’s in a name?
The field we are working in is commonly referred to as metal studies or metal music studies. I prefer the […]
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 […]
Homo ludens metallicus? On Huizinga, the historian’s gaze and sonic knowledge in Metal Music Studies
Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was one of the pioneers of modern and postmodern cultural history. His narratives, overflowing with […]
A short conceptual note on ‘Foucauldian’ and ‘Neo-Foucauldian’ thought in Metal Music Studies
Today, Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984), as a theorist of post-structuralism, is one of the most well-known sources of conceptual […]