Sound, Symbol, Sociality The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music

Sound, Symbol, Sociality The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music / by Matthew Unger.

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical community, this book interprets aesthe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unger, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Music.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Religion and sociology.
Hermeneutics.
Aesthetics.
Feminist anthropology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A Genre of Paradox and Dichotomies
  • 3.Defilement and Social Theory
  • 4.Post-Secular Aesthetics and the Symbolic Constitution of Extreme Metal Music
  • 5.The Modalities of Defilement within Extreme Metal
  • 6.The Symbolic Experience of Christian Extreme Metal .

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