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Author Vasan, Sonia
Title Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange Perspective Type Book Chapter
Year (up) 2016 Publication Global metal music and culture: current directions in metal studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 261-276
Keywords Gender; Extreme Metal; North Carolina
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Publisher Routledge Place of Publication New York & London Editor Brown, Andy R.; Spracklen, Karl; Scott, Niall W.R.; Kahn-Harris, Keith
Language en Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-317-58725-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ brown_gender_2016 Serial 468
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Author St-Laurent, Méi-Ra
Title Finally getting out of the maze: Understanding the narrative structure of extreme metal through a study of ‘Mad Architect’ by Septicflesh Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2016 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 87-108
Keywords Rhetoric; Extreme Metal; Textuality; Septicflesh; Narrative
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 2052-3998 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ st-laurent_finally_2016 Serial 544
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Author Unger, Matthew
Title Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music Type Book Whole
Year (up) 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rhetoric; Motifs; Extreme Metal; Theory
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Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK Place of Publication London Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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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 (up) 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 (up) 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 Lucas, Olivia R.
Title Loudness, Rhythm and Environment: Analytical Issues in Extreme Metal Music Type Book Whole
Year (up) 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Extreme metal; Loudness; Complexity; Musicology; Theory
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Publisher Harvard University Place of Publication Cambridge Editor
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Call Number UCM-CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ Serial 2385
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Author Petrovic, Paul
Title Beyond ‘forms of aggression’: teaching extreme metal in the composition classroom Type Book Chapter
Year (up) 2017 Publication Connecting metal to culture: unity in disparity Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Musicology; Extreme Metal; Composition; Pedagogy
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Publisher Intellect Books Place of Publication Bristol Editor Elovaara, Mika; Bardine, Bryan
Language en Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-78320-702-2 Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ elovaara_beyond_2017 Serial 253
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Author Grant, Sam
Title Resistants, stimulants and weaponization: Extreme metal music and empowerment in the Iraqi and Syrian civil conflicts Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2017 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 175-200
Keywords Reception; Extreme Metal; Non-Western scenes; Syria; Iraq
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ISSN 2052-3998 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ grant_resistants_2017 Serial 573
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Author Netherton, Jason
Title The entrepreneurial imperative: Recording artists in extreme metal music proto-markets Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2017 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 3 Issue 3 Pages 369-386
Keywords Extreme Metal; Music industry
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ISSN 2052-3998 ISBN Medium
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Call Number UCM - CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ netherton_entrepreneurial_2017 Serial 582
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Author Hoad, Catherine; Whiting, Samuel
Title True Kvlt? The Cultural Capital of “Nordicness” in Extreme Metal Type Journal Article
Year (up) 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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