Overview
Defining 'Australian metal' is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike. Australian metal has long been situated in a complex relationship between local and global trends, where the geographic distance between Australia and metal music's seemingly traditional centres in the United States and United Kingdom have meant that metal in Australia has been isolated from international scenes. While numerous metal scenes exist throughout the country, 'Australian metal' itself, as a style, as a sound, and as a signifier, is a term which cannot be easily defined. This book considers the multiple ways in which 'Australianness' has been experienced, imagined, and contested throughout historical periods, within particular subgenres, and across localised metal scenes. In doing so, the collection not only explores what can be meant by Australian metal, but what can be meant by 'Australian' more generally. With chapters from researchers and practitioners across Australia, each chapter maps the distinct ways in which 'Australianness' has been grappled with in the identities, scenes, and cultures of heavy metal in the country. Authors address the question of whether there is anything particularly 'Australian' about Australian metal music, finding that often the 'Australianness' of Australian metal is articulated through wider, mythologised archetypes of national identity. However, this collection also reveals how Australianness can manifest in metal in ways that can challenge stereotypical imaginings of national identity, and assert new modes of being metal 'downungerground'.
Full Product Details
Author: Catherine Hoad (Massey University Wellington, New Zealand) ,
Rosemary Lucy Hill ,
Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.409kg
ISBN: 9781787691681
ISBN 10: 1787691683
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 28 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This volume brings together seven chapters by music, media studies, and other researchers from Australia, the UK, and New Zealand, who consider how national identity impacts the scenes, cultures, and practices of heavy metal in Australia. They explore masculine genealogies and trajectories, particularly the key characteristics of heavy metal in its early days in Australia, the development of extreme metal scenes in the late 1980s, and how trajectories of Australian masculinity emerged in contemporary settings and the subgenre of metalcore; local scenes in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth, with discussion of female metal musicians and grindcore; and cultures of resistance in Australian metal, including the Muslim blackened death metal band Hazeen and its response to Islamophobia, and the environmental concerns and ecological anxieties of Australian metal. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
This volume brings together seven chapters by music, media studies, and other researchers from Australia, the UK, and New Zealand, who consider how national identity impacts the scenes, cultures, and practices of heavy metal in Australia. They explore masculine genealogies and trajectories, particularly the key characteristics of heavy metal in its early days in Australia, the development of extreme metal scenes in the late 1980s, and how trajectories of Australian masculinity emerged in contemporary settings and the subgenre of metalcore; local scenes in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth, with discussion of female metal musicians and grindcore; and cultures of resistance in Australian metal, including the Muslim blackened death metal band Hazeen and its response to Islamophobia, and the environmental concerns and ecological anxieties of Australian metal. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) *
Author Information
Dr Catherine Hoad is Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies in the School of Music and Creative Media Production, Massey University Wellington, New Zealand.
