Writing about writing about heavy metal, part four: how do you explain (Styrian) heavy metal?
Since my last blog post on the “Mexican experience” of writing about metal, quite some time has passed. Also in […]
Writing about writing about heavy metal, part three: the Mexican experience
Over a month ago now, I had the great pleasure of attending the fifth conference of the “International Society for […]
Writing about writing about heavy metal, part two: theories and methods
In the weeks since my last blog post, the central work in my project on the history of the Styrian […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Between scholarliness and fandom: on distance and closeness, objectivity and subjectivity in Metal Music Studies
In my last post, I reflected on the identities of Metal scholars, in terms of the transgressive potential of Metal […]
Narrations, narratives and emplotment: is Hayden White’s narratological theory of history a suitable source of research in Metal Music Studies?
American historian Hayden White (born 1928) is one of the most influential theorists of narratological theory and pilosophy of history […]