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Author Kahn-Harris, Keith

Title Extreme Metal : Music and Culture on the Edge
Published Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION FROM HEAVY METAL TO EXTREME METAL; 1 THE EXTREME METAL SCENE; 2 THE SCENE AND TRANSGRESSION; 3 EXPERIENCING THE SCENE; 4 CAPITAL, POWER, INFRASTRUCTURE; 5 COMPARING EXTREME METAL SCENES; 6 EXTREME METAL AND SUBCULTURAL CAPITAL; 7 REFLEXIVITY, MUSIC AND POLITICS; 8 THE SCENE AND MODERNITY; APPENDIX DETAILS OF QUOTED INTERVIEWEES; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary Extreme metal - one step beyond heavy metal - can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicians have developed an often impenetrable sound that teeters on the edge of screaming, incomprehensible noise. This book explores the global extreme metal scene. Please note that images have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions
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Subject Extreme metal (Music) -- History and criticism
Extreme metal (Music) -- Social aspects
Social theory.
Popular culture.
Cultural studies.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Extreme metal (Music)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857850812
0857850814
1282984934
9781282984936
9780857852212
0857852213