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Author Cardwell, Thomas openurl 
  Title Still life and death metal: painting the battle jacket Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Art history; Battle jackets; Death metal; Fashion; Semiotics; Still lifes; Subcultures  
  Abstract This thesis aims to conduct a study of battle jackets using painting as a recording and analytical tool. A battle jacket is a customised garment worn in heavy metal subcultures that features decorative patches, band insignia, studs and other embellishments. Battle jackets are significant in the expression of subcultural identity for those that wear them, and constitute a global phenomenon dating back at least to the 1970s. The art practice juxtaposes and re-contextualises cultural artefacts in order to explore the narratives and traditions that they are a part of. As such, the work is situated within the genre of contemporary still life and appropriative painting. The paintings presented with the written thesis document a series of jackets and creatively explore the jacket form and related imagery. The study uses a number of interrelated critical perspectives to explore the meaning and significance of the jackets. Intertextual approaches explore the relationship of the jackets to other cultural forms.

David Muggleton’s ‘distinctive individuality’ and Sarah Thornton’s ‘subcultural capital’ are used to emphasise the importance of jacket making practices for expressions of personal and corporate subcultural identity. Italo Calvino’s use of postmodern semiotic structures gives a tool for placing battle jacket practice within a shifting network of meanings, whilst Richard Sennett’s‘material consciousness’ helps to understand the importance of DIY making practices used by fans. The project refers extensively to a series of interviews conducted with battle jacket makers between 2014 and 2016. Recent art historical studies of still life painting have used a materialist critique of historic works to demonstrate the uniqueness of painting as a method of analysis. The context for my practice involves historical references such as seventeenth century Dutch still life painting. The work of contemporary artists who are exploring the themes and imagery of extreme metal music is also reviewed.
 
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  Publisher University of the Arts London (United Kingdom) Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2213  
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Author Temkin, Daniel isbn  openurl
  Title Intricate Machines for String Quartet Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Classical music; Heavy Metal; Musical composition; String quartets  
  Abstract Program Notes: Intricate Machines was composed for the 2016 Saarbrücken Somermusik festival in Germany. The festival theme was “travel to foreign lands” and this piece, in some sense, represents a larger journey from the chaos of the outside world into a more peaceful sphere of inner reflection. Each of the five movements is connected together and played without pause. Beginning with dense and rhythmic outbursts, the first movement (“Heavy-Metal Viola”) imagines a musical offspring of Bartok and Metallica somehow fused together by string quartet. The second movement (“Bump in the Night”) focuses on juxtaposition: a lone, delicate, solo violin hums quietly, only to face jarring interruptions from the ensemble underneath. Ending with an introspective chorale, the second movement gives way to movement three (“Churning Gears”) in which fast and repetitive ostinatos create a dense interlocking musical machine. The fourth movement (“Constellations”) begins with an eruption of heavy, sustaining, chords that are played freely, out of time. These vibrating orbs of sound gradually recede into distant and ethereal harmonics. Suggesting a celestial atmosphere, the solo cello gently sings a muted melody, leaving us in a place of transformation relative to the earlier movements. Movement five, a playful folk-dance, completes the total journey as an overt contrast to the tense opening movements. Amidst its quirky and bizarre groove, elements of rock, funk, folk-fiddling, and pedal-tone drone music, are assimilated into what composer Steven Mackey describes as “a vernacular music from a culture that doesn’t really exist”—or as I phrase it here, a “Martian Jukebox Hoe-down.”  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Doctoral thesis  
  Publisher University of Southern California Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 9798460449484 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2214  
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Author Miller, Diana isbn  openurl
  Title Creative Producers and Gender Relations: A Field Analysis of Two Grassroots Music Scenes Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 205  
  Keywords Cultural and symbolic capital; Cultural valuation; Gender and creative careers; Gender and habitus; Gender and organizations; Gender studies; Fields of cultural production; Heavy metal; Sociology  
  Abstract This dissertation uses a comparative case study of two grassroots music scenes—the folk music and heavy metal scenes in Toronto—to examine gender relations among cultural producers. I collect data using semi-structured interviews with 63 field actors, 70 instances of participant-observation, and discourse analysis of key public texts. Building on Bourdieu’s field theory, I argue that gender organizes fields of cultural production, including (1) the field’s economy of symbolic capital (2) the connection between field and habitus and (3) the spaces where musicians develop the embodied cultural capital required for music careers.

The first paper shows that field organization impacts the extent to which field members’ gendered dispositions produce symbolic capital, or reputation. Two features of cultural fields shape whether symbolic capital is gendered: the degree to which symbolic capital is institutionalized, and the level of symbolic boundary-drawing in the field. The metal field’s low institutionalization of symbolic capital and high boundaries foreground gender as a basis of symbolic capital, while the folk field’s high institutionalization of symbolic capital and low boundary-drawing reduce the extent to which gender matters.

The second paper situates gender as central to relationship between field and habitus. Participants in the metal field develop a metalhead habitus that privileges gendered practices centered on individual dominance and status competition, while the folkie habitus encourages gendered practices centered on caring, emotionality, and community-building. These gendered habitus support different working conventions: volunteer-based non-profit organizations in folk, and individual entrepreneurship in metal. The gendered habitus also supports different stylistic conventions: guitar virtuosity in the metal field, and participatory music-making in folk.

The third paper finds gendered access to the learning spaces where musicians develop performance capital, a form of embodied cultural capital denoting the instrumental and interpersonal skills required to perform music. Folk’s learning spaces are largely public and do not require social networks for access, while heavy metal’s learning spaces are private and centered on male-dominated friendship networks from which women are often excluded. These different learning spaces creates gendered patterns of access to the embodied cultural capital required to develop a music career.
 
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  Publisher University of Toronto (Canada) Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-67340-1 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2215  
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Author Callaway, Charles isbn  openurl
  Title I See The Horse Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 490  
  Keywords Communication and the arts; Creative writing; Fantasy literature; Fiction; Heavy metal  
  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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  Publisher University of Central Oklahoma Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-45252-5 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2216  
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Author Triplett, Andrew G. isbn  openurl
  Title Music and aggression: Effects of lyrics and background music on aggressive behavior Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 57  
  Keywords Aggression; Aggressive behavior; Heavy metal; Lyrics; Music; Psychology  
  Abstract Given the ever-growing popularity of music in daily life, it is of the utmost importance to understand how it influences affect, cognition, and behavior, especially given the violence of certain genres of music. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between music and behavior, specifically to examine how the lyrics and background music interact to influence affective hostility and aggressive behavior. Data were collected from a sample of 168 students (61% Female; MAge = 19.24, SD = 2.470) at a large, private, Midwestern university to investigate this relationship. The music was manipulated by randomly assigning the participant to listen to one of four versions of a song. These versions included the match of either antisocial or prosocial lyrics with heavy metal or calm background music.

Although there was no significant main effect of the lyrical content on participant’s aggressive behavior as hypothesized, there was a significant main effect of the lyrical content on an individual’s level of affective hostility F(4,159) = 8.818, p < .001, η 2</super> = .186. Specifically, pairwise comparisons showed antisocial lyrics resulted in a higher level of hostility as compared to the prosocial lyrics. This pattern suggests that music influences an individual’s affective hostility, but counter to previous research, music does not necessarily alter aggressive behavior. The relationship between music and aggression requires further investigation in order to determine whether music does in fact influence behavior, including potential moderators of this relationship.
 
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  Publisher Loyola University Chicago Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-27199-7 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2217  
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Author Watts, Chelsea Anne isbn  openurl
  Title Nothin' But a Good Time: Hair Metal, Conservatism and the End of the Cold War in the 1980s Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 232  
  Keywords Communication and the arts; Free market capitalism; Gender studies; Glam metal; Masculinity; Popular culture; Reagan era; Rock and roll; United States history  
  Abstract This dissertation offers a cultural history of the 1980s through an examination of one of the decade’s most memorable cultural forms—hair metal. The notion that hair metal musicians, and subsequently their fans, wanted “nothin’ but a good time,” shaped popular perceptions of the genre as shallow, hedonistic, and apolitical. Set against the backdrop of Reagan’s election and the rise of conservatism throughout the decade, hair metal’s transgressive nature embodied in the performers’ apparent obsession with partying and their absolute refusal to adopt the traditional values and trappings of “yuppies” or middle-class Americans, certainly appeared to be a strong reaction against conservatism; however, a closer examination of hair metal as a cultural form reveals a conservative subtext looming beneath the genre’s transgressive façade. In its embrace of traditional gender roles, free market capitalism, and American exceptionalism, hair metal upheld and worked to re-inscribe the key tenants of conservative ideology.

Historians have only recently turned an analytical eye toward the 1980s and by and large their analyses have focused on the political and economic changes wrought by the Reagan Revolution that competed America’s conservative turn over the course of the decade. This study adds to historical understandings of the decade’s political history by telling us how non-political actors—musicians, producers, critics, and fans—shaped and were shaped by the currents of formal politics. Though heavy metal music and the rise of conservatism seem to share little common ground, by putting these two seemingly disparate historiographies into conversation with one another, we gain a clearer picture of the breadth and depth of conservatism’s reach in the 1980s.
 
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  Publisher University of South Florida Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-42831-5 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2218  
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Author Calandra, Nicole isbn  openurl
  Title Metal health: Measuring depression and anxiety within the heavy metal community Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 41  
  Keywords Anxiety; Depression; Heavy Metal; Mental Health; Mental illness; Music; Psychology; Rock Music  
  Abstract Heavy metal has a long and controversial history. One of the many things it has been blamed for is causing mental illness among its listeners. However, is the music to be blamed or are there other factors coming into play? Numerous studies have been done on various aspects of heavy metal such as its link to violence, but few have been done on mental health within the community. This paper replicated a French study examining levels of depression and anxiety within the community. Forty three participants, all active metal listeners, completed a survey examining various factors such as employment status and education levels, and completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Like the French study, it found that participants had generally low levels of depression and anxiety, but high levels were linked to outside factors. Hopefully, this will help open the floor for more valuable research on the community.  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center. Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-35554-3 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2219  
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Author McDowell, Michael A., II isbn  openurl
  Title Heavy South: Identity, Performance, and Heavy Music in the Southern Metal Scene Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 80  
  Keywords American south; American studies; Communication and the arts; Film studies; Heavy metal; Musicology; Popular music; Subculture  
  Abstract The Southern Metal scene depends heavily on the performance of a Southern Identity. While considerable research has been done on other musical genres and scenes from the American South (country music, blues, gospel music), less attention has been given to the extreme metal scene of Southern Metal. Using scholarship of Nadine Hubbs, Philip Auslander, Jefferey C. Alexander, and Keith Kahn Harris, among others, I analyze two films, Slow Southern Steel (2010) and NOLA: Life, Death, and Heavy Blues from the Bayou (2014), and one song, Down’s “Eyes of the South” as cultural productions of this Southern Metal scene. In this project, I define the musical elements and scene ethos of Southern Metal as they relate to a wider, more mainstream American audience and describe how these identities and cultural forms are produced, negotiated, and embodied.  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher University of South Florida Place of Publication Ann Arbor Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-369-00899-9 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2220  
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Author Hereld, Diana Christine isbn  openurl
  Title Musical Intensity in Affect Regulation: Uncovering Hope and Resilience Through Heavy Music Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 141  
  Keywords Communication and the arts; Clinical psychology; Emotion regulation; Heavy metal; Heavy music; Plasticity; Resilience; Self-destructive behavior  
  Abstract This thesis discusses the nature of music’s impact on identity, subjectivity, and the self. To better understand music’s role in promoting hope and resilience, I pinpoint how heavy, intense, and highly emotive music applied over distinct listening practices impacts the regulation of affect and self-destructive impulses in individuals who suffer from trauma, mental illness, or self-destructive behavior. This research also investigates the characteristic of intensity often found in heavy music that seems (despite intuition) to ease negative or painful emotions, circumvent impulses to self-harm, and propel one to positive action.

Of particular interest to this project are the ways both heavy and non-genre specific music listeners use various listening strategies in the regulation and modulation of negative affect and emotion. Specifically highlighted are the three strategies defined by Saarikallio (2008) in the Music in Mood Regulation (MMR) scale of using music to cope with negative mood states: Diversion, where music is used to distract from negative thoughts and feelings, Solace, where music is used for comfort, acceptance, and understanding when feeling sad or troubled, and Discharge, where anger or sadness are released through music.

Through review and analysis of existing literature, qualitative research, and in-depth case studies, this thesis illuminates the ways musically-afforded emotion-regulation strategies allow subjects to meet, shape, and transform their difficult experiences by establishing hope and resilience that strengthens one’s ontological security and sense of self.
 
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  Publisher University of California, San Diego Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-339-93488-4 Medium  
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  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2221  
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Author Miller, Michael Brian isbn  openurl
  Title Nicodemus! The beds are burning again: The ascension of Gorgomath Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 163  
  Keywords Communication and the arts; Chamber; Concerto; Heavy metal; Musical composition; Narrative; Orchestra; Piano  
  Abstract Nicodemus! The Beds are Burning Again: The Ascension of Gorgomath is a 22-minute concerto for piano and chamber orchestra that explores the use of narrative as a means of unifying disparate musical languages into a cohesive single-movement structure. The narrative, as implied by the fourteen programmatic indicators within the score, features a protagonist, Nicodemus, and an antagonist, Gorgomath. Additional contrasting elements essential to the plot are: the burning beds, outer space, the ultimate weapon, and the three rituals. The programmatic indicators, to be listed in the program, function as a framework from which the listener can fabricate their own version of the story.

The narrative begins with “The beds are burning,” a heavy-metal inspired musical theme characterized by a pervasive rhythmic structure interspersed with virtuosic piano displays. Full orchestral forces add to the intensity of a relentless motor rhythm heard first in the piano. Following “Ritual I,” a transitionary theme of soli strings and piano, Nicodemus’s theme develops, a musical antithesis to “The Burning Beds” theme. It employs a simple melodic loop over a basic four-chord harmonic structure, reminiscent of 8-bit video game themes, and is voiced as piano accompanied by tremolo in the woodwinds and strings.

Nicodemus’s journey into space begins with a rapid deceleration in tempo. The following slow ternary form includes a funerary dirge bookended by the piece’s most lyrical piano writing, expressed by the rise and fall of melodic octaves. The pounding neo-Shostakovian strings of “Ritual II” transition directly into the development section, “Nicodemus seeks the ultimate weapon.” Nicodemus’s theme undergoes significant transformation, assuming the guise of stride piano and North Indian tabla music. These styles are unique to this section, as is their orchestration of high, sustained winds alternating with orchestral hits between low strings and percussion.

The piece’s recapitulation, “Meanwhile…,” begins with a return of the burning beds. Here, “Gorgomath’s Theme,” identifiable by the instability of its 7/16 motor rhythm is briefly foreshadowed. It appears in its entirety in the coda, “Boss Battle.”

The resulting work uses original narrative to blend polystylistic elements into a cohesive single movement structure with a dramatic musical arc.
 
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  Publisher University of Missouri - Kansas City Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-1-339-70801-0 Medium  
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  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2222  
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