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Boman, B. (2026). Masks In Music and Film: Perspectives from the West and East Asia. London, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
Abstract: "The book is about the multiple meanings and instances of masks (and makeup which seems to have a mask-like function such as in Kiss, many black metal bands, and Insane Clown Posse) within popular culture, specifically films and music. While mainly focusing on the Western contexts, there will also be examples from other regions and cultural contexts such as Japan and Korea.
Each chapter offers an in-depth analysis of a particular work(s) or artist/band rather than just name dropping mainstream and obscure work that many scholars, unfortunately, do. The study in its entirety belongs to cultural studies and the interpretive sciences. The target audience consists of other academic researchers, students and the broader audience of people who are interested in film and music (e.g., fans)."
<< Björn Boman is a researcher in education, political science, cultural studies and psychology, known for his multidisciplinary work which spans several and intersecting disciplines, inclusive of film and music. Apart from a PhD in education from Stockholm University he has carried out postdoctoral work in political science. Currently, he is affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. He has also acquired a master's degree in religious studies and studied the Korean language and culture, as well as, for example, Russian history and politics at Stockholm University. >>
[source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-16978-5]
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Nevárez Araújo, D., & Varas-Díaz, N. (2022). Lodes of Metal: The Texture and Sound of Memory in Latin American Heavy Metal Documentaries. In C. L. Ballengee (Ed.), Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South (pp. 89–112). Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Abstract: Description of entire book:
"Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South, edited by Christopher L. Ballengee, represents an important step toward thinking about the production and analysis of the soundscapes of documentary film, all while exploring a range of social, cultural, technological, and theoretical questions relevant to current trends in Global South studies. Written by a diverse set of authors, including filmmakers, academics, and cultural critics, the ten essays in this book provide fresh evaluations of the place of music and sound in documentary films outside the European-American milieu. On the whole, the authors illuminate how the invention of documentary film was at first a product of the colonialist project.
Yet over time, access to filmmaking technologies led to the creation of documentary films relevant for local communities and national identities. In this sense, documentary film in the Global South might be broadly defined as a mode of personally or politically mediated storytelling that, by one route or another, has become a useful and recognizable means of memorializing traumatic histories and critiquing everyday lived experience. As the essays in this volume attest, close readings of documentary soundscapes provide fresh perspectives on ways of hearing and ways of being heard in the Global South." (source: Lexington Books)
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Nevárez Araújo, D., & Varas-Díaz, N. (2024). Lodes of Metal: The Texture and Sound of Memory in Latin American Heavy Metal Documentaries. In C. L. Ballengee (Ed.), Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South (pp. 89–112). Lanham: Lexington Books.
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