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 […]
“Aren’t you the guy doing this metal studies interview stuff?”: On distance and self-reflection
In my recent post, I wrote about oral history as a the method of choice to decode the Styrian metal […]
The Styrian metal scene in 2021: ‘Pandemism’ and localism
Copyright of the elements of the title image: cover artwork ‘Thrashing Death Squad’ EP © MDD/Black Sunset Records 2021; branding […]
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 […]