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Callaway, C. (2016). I See The Horse. Master's thesis, University of Central Oklahoma, Ann Arbor.
Abstract: I See the Horse is a fantasy novel that follows the adventures of Komar Voorhexees of Port Karpricius during a time of civil war within The Ten Kingdoms of the Enlibar Empire. The primary focus or super objective of the novel centers on the pursuit of a religious artifact, The Tear of Vashanka, and the delivery of documents important to the war cause.
The novel follows story telling lessons from Twain, Vonnegut, Robert Mckee, and Orson Scott Card. The novel also mixes elements from canonical masters such as Homer, Shakespeare, and Joyce with genre-champions such as J.R.R. Tolkien, R.E. Howard, and G.R.R. Martin, as well as components of heavy metal music. The result lies squarely between the subgenres of Sword and Sorcery and High (Epic) Fantasy. The first six chapters fit into the Sword and Sorcery category; whereas, the second dives into Epic Fantasy as the protagonist slowly becomes part of the bigger milieu.
The novel was created to have an original, gritty, realistic world with an American feel and flavor and a fantasy city drenched in the culture of the American South. To create a fantasy novel with an American feel was the projects initial purpose and drive. This is accomplished by drawing heavily upon the author’s life and experience.
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Moores, J. R. (2021). Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present. London, U.K.: Reaktion Books.
Abstract: "It began with the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter.” It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy music. The voyage is as varied as it is illuminating: from the lysergic blunt trauma of Blue Cheer to the locked grooves of Funkadelic, the aural frightmares of Faust to the tectonic crush of Sleep, alighting on post-punk, industrial, grunge, stoner rock, and numerous other genres along the way.
Ranging from household names to obscure cult heroes and heroines, Electric Wizards demonstrates how each successive phase of heavy music was forged by what came before, outlining a rich and eclectic lineage that extends far beyond the usual boundaries of heavy rock or heavy metal. It extols those who did things differently, who introduced something fresh and exciting into this elemental tradition, whether by design, accident, or sheer chance. In doing so, Electric Wizards weaves an entirely new tapestry of heavy music." (source: Reaktion Books)
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Hudson, S. S. (2021). Thirty-one years later: A review of Metallica’s “Black Album” and its legacy on alternative metal and alt-right politics. Metal Music Studies, 7(3), 475–478.
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Zulfiningrum, R., & Almayda, S. R. D. (2023). Metal Music as a Medium of Da'wah Communication (Album “7:172” Band Purgatory). Riwayat: Educational Journal of History and Humanities,, 6(2), 468–477.
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Herbst, J. - P. (2021). Culture-specific production and performance characteristics: An interview study with “Teutonic” metal producers. Metal Music Studies, 7(3), 445–467.
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Swiniartzki, M. (2021). Szene-Eliten. Selbststilisierung, soziale Praxis und postmoderne Ästhetisierung am Beispiel des norwegischen Black Metals. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 61, 445–472.
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Thomas, N. (2021). Innovation and tradition in metal music production. Metal Music Studies, 7(3), 423–443.
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Rekedal, J. E. (2015). Warrior Spirit: From Invasion to Fusion Music in the Mapuche Territory of Southern Chile. Ann Arbor: University of California, Riverside.
Abstract: This dissertation chronicles the cultural, musical and performative fronts during two centuries of struggle and negotiation between Mapuche and Chilean societies. The perspective is mainly ethnomusicological, including two years of fieldwork in the Araucanía region, concerning new genres of Mapuche fusion music such as rock and hip-hop. This writing demonstrates how Mapuche expressions and representations accrued various forms of value during Chile's modernization—including colonization, nation building, the emergence of modern social movements, and the implementation of neoliberal policies—and how artists contend with and subvert those values today.
The opening chapters are historical. Following the invasion of Araucanía in the 1880s, Mapuche political activism eventually gained traction by carefully managing a relationship with the Chilean political establishment, while also cultivating a unique approach to political processes that incorporated preexisting rituals. Concurrently, the Mapuche transitioned from adversaries to objects of study, while concepts such as folklore took root in Chilean society. As popular culture took note of Mapuche sounds and symbols toward the mid-twentieth century, non-Mapuche artists and activists codified their progressive ideologies through their embrace of indigeneity, exemplified in art music, and most famously, nueva canción.
Based directly on fieldwork, the second half of the thesis discusses how Mapuche cultural continuity has involved both the recovery of traditions and the incorporation of non-traditional elements. I describe the conversion of a mingako ritual into a festival of music and poetry in the Mapuche comunidad of Saltapura. This transfer from agriculture to expressive culture demonstrates the diminishing value of Mapuche lands, parallel with the increasing value of their expressions, under neoliberal multiculturalism. Meanwhile, Mapuche heavy metal and hip-hop groups such as Pewmayén and Weichafe Newen build their music around ancestral principles of sound, ritual and language, raising the question as to whether Mapuche musical elements thus become ingredients of popular music, or whether popular music becomes Mapuche for incorporating these elements. Through detailed discussions of this music and its broader contexts, this dissertation issues a critique of the culture concept underpinning neoliberal multiculturalism, inherited from the investigations of the Mapuche during the early republican period.
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Thomas, S. (2022). The Devil's Party. Metal and Literature. In R. Durkin, P. Dayan, A. Englund, & K. Clausius (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (pp. 406–415). London: Routledge.
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González-Martínez, S. (2022). The didactic role of feminist art in metal music: Coven bands as a relational device for personal improvement and social justice. Metal Music Studies, 8(3), 401–421.
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