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Author Unger, Matthew P.
Title Ode to a dying God: Debasement of Christian symbols in extreme metal Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 243-262
Keywords Philosophy; Religion; Rhetoric; Motifs; Extreme Metal
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ISSN 2052-3998, 2052-4005 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ unger_ode_2019 Serial 624
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Author Jocson-Singh, Joan
Title Vigilante feminism as a form of musical protest in extreme metal music Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 263-273
Keywords Feminism; Gender; Extreme Metal
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ISSN 2052-3998, 2052-4005 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ jocson-singh_vigilante_2019 Serial 625
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Author Spracklen, Karl
Title From ”The Wicker Man” (1973) to Atlantean Kodex: Extreme music, alternative identities and the invention of paganism Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 71-86
Keywords Paganism; Folk; Extreme Metal; Atlantean Kodex
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ISSN 2052-3998, 2052-4005 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ spracklen_wicker_2020 Serial 637
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Author Unger, Matthew
Title Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music Type Book Whole
Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Rhetoric; Motifs; Extreme Metal; Theory
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Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK Place of Publication London Editor
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-137-47834-4 Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ unger_sound_2016 Serial 681
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Author Smialek, Eric T.
Title Genre and Expression in Extreme Metal Music, Ca. 1990-2015 Type Book Whole
Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 346
Keywords Aesthetics; Black metal; Death metal; Extreme Metal; History (metal music); Musicians & conductors; Subgenres
Abstract Extreme metal music , a conglomeration of metal subgenres unified by a common interest in transgressive sounds and imagery, is now a global phenomenon with thriving scenes in every inhabited continent. Its individual subgenres represent a range of diverse aesthetics, some with histories spanning over thirty years. Scholarship on extreme metal now boasts a similar diversity as well as its own history spanning nearly two decades. With the rise of metal studies as an emerging field of scholarship, the scholarly literature on extreme metal has increased exponentially within the past seven years supported by annual conferences, the establishment of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), and a specialized journal ( Metal Music Studies). Despite this growth, the field is still characterized by what sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris has called “undoubtedly the most critical weakness in metal studies as it stands: the relative paucity of detailed musicological analyzes on metal” (Kahn-Harris 2011, 252). This blind spot in the literature is so pervasive that Sheila Whiteley began her preface to Andrew Cope's Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music with the exclamation, “At last! A book about heavy metal as music ” (Cope 2010, xi).

As the first book-length musicological study of extreme metal, this dissertation responds to this critical gap by outlining, in previously unattempted detail, a wide range of genre conventions and semiotic codes that form the basis of aesthetic expression in extreme metal. Using an interdisciplinary mixture of literary genre theory, semiotics, music theory and analysis, acoustics, and linguistics, this dissertation presents a broad overview of extreme metal's musical, verbal, and visual-symbolic systems of meaning.

Part I: Interconnected Contexts and Paratexts begins with a critical survey of genre taxonomies, showing how their implicit logic masks value judgments and overlooks aspects of genre that are counterintuitive. This leads to an investigation of boundary discourses that reveals how fans define extreme metal negatively according to those subgenres and categories of identity that they treat as abject Others: nu metal, screamo, and deathcore as well as their associations with blackness, femininity, and adolescence . Part I concludes with a thick description of death metal and black metal that shows how its lyrics, album reviews, album artwork, band logos, and font styles collectively provide messages about the semantics of genre, most notably by drawing upon archetypes of the sublime and , in the case of raw black metal,

Part II: Analyzing Musical Texts synthesizes large corpus studies of musical recordings with close readings of individual songs. This section begins with a demonstration of how technical death metal bands Cannibal Corpse, Demilich, and Spawn of Possession play with listener expectations towards meter, syntax, and musical complexity to create pleasurable forms of disorientation that reward active and repeated listenings. It proceeds to investigate musical accessibility and formal salience in melodic death metal, showing through examples by In Flames and Soilwork how the notion of melody pervades this musicand contributes to its sense of rhetoric. Part II concludes with a study of musical expression in extreme metal vocals. Using discussions and recordings from a vocalist participant, a corpus study of eighty-five songs that begin with wordless screams, and close readings of excerpts by Morbid Angel, Zimmers Hole, and At the Gates, I demonstrate that the acoustical features of vowel formants are central to vocal expression in extreme metal, enabling vocalists to mimic large beasts in a way that fans find convincing and powerful.
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Publisher McGill University Place of Publication Montreal Editor
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ISSN ISBN 9798597046549 Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ smialek_genre_2016 Serial 689
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Author Radovanović, Bojana
Title Ideologies and Discourses: Extreme Narratives in Extreme Metal Music Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication AM Journal of Art and Media Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue Pages 51-58
Keywords Ideology; Extreme metal; Discourses
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ISSN 2406-1654 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ radovanovic_ideologies_2016 Serial 691
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Author Manea, Irina Maria
Title Primal Roots: Ancestry and Race in Extreme Music Discourses Type Book Chapter
Year 2015 Publication Proceedings of IAC-SSaH 2015: International Academic Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities in Prague 2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 185-193
Keywords Extreme Metal; Cultural Identity; Race
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Publisher Czech Technical University in Prague Place of Publication Prag Editor
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ISSN ISBN 978-80-905791-2-5 Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ manea_primal_2015 Serial 709
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Author Hoad, Catherine; Whiting, Samuel
Title True Kvlt? The Cultural Capital of “Nordicness” in Extreme Metal Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication M/C Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages n..p.
Keywords Extreme Metal
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ISSN 1441-2616 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ hoad_true_2017 Serial 711
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Author Kahn-Harris, Keith
Title ‘Roots’? the relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Popular Music Abbreviated Journal
Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 13-30
Keywords Sociology; Extreme Metal; Globalization
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ kahn-harris_roots_2000 Serial 931
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Author Harbert, Benjamin J.
Title Noise and its formless shadows: Egypt’s extreme metal as avant-garde. Nafas Dawsha Type Book Chapter
Year 2013 Publication The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 229-272
Keywords Extreme Metal; Non-Western scenes; Egypt
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Publisher Wesleyan University Press Place of Publication Middletown Editor Burkhalter, Thomas; Dickinson, Kay; Harbert, Benjamin J.
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ISSN ISBN 978-0-8195-7387-2 Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ burkhalter_noise_2013 Serial 1112
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