Monteanni, L. (2025). Extreme Traditions: On Bandung’s Intergenerational Sonic Ecologies. CTM Magazine: Interviews, Essays, Reflections on Sound, Music and Society, .
Abstract: “Bodies writhing to rhythms, the mind locked onto a supernatural state of being, the sound relentless and seductive at the same time. It could be a metal mosh pit or a site of regional ceremonies. Tracing the intersections between two extreme sonic worlds—the traditional trance ceremonial réak and metal—the musician and researcher Luigi Monteanni examines how a localised traditional sound and a contemporary global genre have influenced each other in West Java, creating unlikely alliances in the ongoing resistance to cooptation by neoliberal politics, as well as to connected experiences of geotrauma and the rise of ethnolocality.”
(SOURCE: https://www.ctm-festival.de/magazine/extreme-traditions-on-bandungs-inter-generational-sonic-ecologies)
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Verne, M. (2017). “A Highland Thing”: Heavy Metal and the Construction of Cultural Difference in Madagascar.4(1), 58–77.
Abstract: "Around the mid-1980s, when Madagascar’s socialist “Second Republic” effectively came to an end, a small but significant heavy metal community evolved in the island’s capital, Antananarivo. While interest in this kind of music declined during the 1990s, echoing developments within global popular music, Malagasy metal never ceased to exist and, during the last ten years, enjoyed renewed popularity.
This popularity has, however, always been restricted to Madagascar’s central highlands, which rendered Malagasy metal “a highland thing” in the eyes of both highland and coastal populations. It is because of this regionalized perception, I will argue in this article, that Malagasy heavy metal considerably contributes to the maintenance of a fundamental cultural divide that separates Madagascar’s highlands from its coastal populations, thereby undermining political struggles aiming at the creation of a shared national identity."
(SOURCE: Journal of World Popular Music website)
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Ramanauskaite, E., & Rudzionis, V. (2024). Emotional Landscapes of Cultural Identity in Fanzines: The Power of Modern Computing in Enhancing Humanities Research. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 12(4), 609–627.
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Alkatiri, Z., Aviandy, M., Nugraha, F. M., & Setiawan, H., Putri, Melisa Indriana. (2023). A pseudo-rebellion: Ujung Berung metalheads in the contestation of identity space in Bandung, 2010–22. Metal Music Studies, 9(2), 233–255.
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East, B. (2023). Death of a guitar hero: The art of metal reputation maintenance. Metal Music Studies, 9(2), 171–188.
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