Aiuto per tesi su metal?

Tesi MA (si trova online):

In Pursuit of the Vikings. An anthropological and critical discourse analysis of imagined communities in heavy metal

Report stilato da studenti della Wageningen University (si trova online):

Cultural Heritage and History in the Metal Scene

 

Stando a un Calll for Papers appena uscito, è in progettazione un volume accademico sul Folk Metal e simili Lo ricopio qui di seguito:

Call for Essays: Folk-Metal: Critical Essays on Identity, Myth and Culture

Essays are invited for a forthcoming edited collection, Folk-Metal: Critical Essays on Identity, Myth and Culture. Folk-metal and its sub-genres and related categories such as “Pagan-metal”, “Viking-metal”, “Celtic-metal” and “Medieval-metal”, is a style of music that developed in Europe during the 1990s, fusing traditional or folk music with heavy metal music forms. In this musical style, traditional musical instruments are employed as well as lyrical references to folklore, mythology and traditional culture. Material allusions to these themes are also made in album artwork and performers’ dress styles. This genre has a particular aesthetic and rootedness in the cultures of Europe and is intertwined with these cultures in regard to symbols, religion, history, heritage, ethnicity and cultural traditions.

Bands categorised as folk-metal include: Skyclad (England), Cruachan (Ireland), Finntroll (Finland), Skyforger (Latvia), Amon Amarth (Sweden), Amorphis (Finland), Falkenbach (Germany), Waylander (Ireland), Svartsot (Denmark), Metsatöll (Estonia), Empyrium (Germany), Mägo de Oz (Spain), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (Czech Republic), Korpiklaani (Finland), Mael Mórdha (Ireland), Alkonost (Russia), Balkandji (Bulgaria), Dalriada (Hungary), Lumsk (Norway), Týr (Faroe Islands), Ensiferum (Finland), Celtachor (Ireland), Eluveitie (Switzerland), Elvenking (Italy), Primordial (Ireland).

This interdisciplinary anthology proposes to explore the folk-metal genre as a cultural form in itself, by examining the relationship between the music, national identity and cultural traditions. Contributions are invited from scholars in the disciplines of folkloristics, ethnomusicology, music, cultural studies and related fields.

Suggested themes:
§ Folklore, song lyrics, and cultural identity
§ Neo-pagan worldview of the bands
§ History of the genre, participants and events
§ Indigenous religion and mythology
§ Political and/or nationalistic agendas
§ The concept of homeland
§ The representation of deities and mythological beings in songs
§ Heroic elements
§ Fantasy literature
§ Nature, landscape and sacred sites

The above-listed themes are intended to be indicative rather than limiting. The analysis can focus on one or more bands and/or one or more country or region.

Essays must be written in English and be between 4,000-7,000 words. Authors are requested to send a 300-word abstract of their proposed essay, along with a short biography (50-100 words) to the editor, Dr Jenny Butler at [email protected] and cc. to [email protected] by November 10, 2014. The deadline for final essays accepted for inclusion is June 1, 2015.

 

Super! Ma cioè? C'è questa dottoressa che cerca qualcuno che le scriva dei saggi sui temi proposti che poi verranno inseriti in una pubblicazione accademica?

Figata! Dove hai trovato l'annuncio?

 

Si, lei è di professione folklorista (tra l'altro, neopagana e metallara, un personaggio). Farà la curatela del volume, il che di solito indica anche una introduzione e magari un saggio. E' un modus operandi molto diffuso. L'annuncio l'ha caricato lei su academia.edu!

 

Molto interessante, grazie!

 

Non riguarda espressamente il metallo pagano ma è lo stesso molto utile in quanto sguardo antropologico sul metallo: John Mansfield, Listening to Heavy Metal in Wadeye, in Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media, edited by Amanda Harris,ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2014, pp. 239-262.

Vedi anche Id., The social organisation of Wadeye's heavy metal mobs, "The Australian Journal of Anthropology" (2013), pp. 1-18.

 

L'ultimo fascicolo di "Volume !" 2 (2014), è tutto dedicato al tema della nostalgia. Molti saggi sono sul Rock: Revue Volume ! 2014/2, Souvenirs, souvenirs - Cairn.info

 

Ma il tizio poi si è laureato?

 

T. Kuusela, "Dark Lord of Gorgoroth": Black Metal and the Works of Tolkien, in Cécile van Zon & Renée Vink (eds.), Lembas Extra 2015: Unexplored Aspects of Tolkien and Arda, pp. 89-120.

 

N. Scott, 'God Hates Us All:’ Kant Radical Evil and
the Monstrous Human in Heavy Metal. Disponibile qui: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Monsters-3.pdf

 

H. M. Berger, Metal, Rock, Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience, Hanover, NH 1999

 

Berger, Harris M.

1997 ‘The Practice of Perception: Multi-Functionality and Time in the Musical Experience of a Heavy Metal Drummer.’ Ethnomusicology 41(3): 464-488.

1999a Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press.

1999b ‘Death Metal Tonality and the Act of Listening.’ Popular Music 18(2): 161-178.

Walser, Robert

1993a Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.

1993b ‘Forging Masculinity: Heavy-metal Sounds and Images of Gender.’ In: Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, and Lawrence Grossberg, ed. New York: Routledge. Pp. 153-181.

1993c ‘Professing Censorship: Academic Attacks on Heavy Metal.’ Journal of Popular Music Studies 5: 68-78.

1997 ‘Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity.’ In: The Subcultures Reader. Ken Gelder and Sarah Thornton, eds. Pp. 459-470. London and New York: Routledge.

Weinstein, Deena

2000 (1991) Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture. Da Capo Press.

 

Capitolo "Satan the Musician: Black Metal and Satanism" (e altri riferimenti al metallo sparsi) in M. Introvigne, Satanism: A Social History (Brill 2016).

 

Appena uscito:

Serina Heinen: »Odin rules« Religion, Medien und Musik im Pagan Metal. Bielefeld: transcript 2017.