Medievalism and Metal Music Studies
Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Medievalism and Metal Music Studies
Throwing Down the Gauntlet
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This edited collection investigates metal music’s enduring fascination with the medieval period from a variety of critical perspectives, exploring how metal musicians and fans use the medieval period as a fount for creativity and critique.
Scholars of music and of the Middle Ages explore the fascination of metal music with the Middle Ages and show how metal songs and genres play upon the imagination of the medieval in the modern imagination. In sections on metal's medieval frames, nationalism and identity in metal medievalism, and historical source materials in metal musics they discuss such topics as getting medieval: signifiers of the Middle-Ages in black metal aesthetics, the politics and poetics of metal's medieval pasts, black metal's medieval king: the apotheosis of Euronymous through album dedications, and satanic bowels: medieval inversion and the black metal grotesque.
Ruth Barratt-Peacock, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GermanyRoss Hagen, Utah Valley University, USA
Scholars of music and of the Middle Ages explore the fascination of metal music with the Middle Ages and show how metal songs and genres play upon the imagination of the medieval in the modern imagination. In sections on metal's medieval frames, nationalism and identity in metal medievalism, and historical source materials in metal musics they discuss such topics as getting medieval: signifiers of the Middle-Ages in black metal aesthetics, the politics and poetics of metal's medieval pasts, black metal's medieval king: the apotheosis of Euronymous through album dedications, and satanic bowels: medieval inversion and the black metal grotesque.
Ruth Barratt-Peacock, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GermanyRoss Hagen, Utah Valley University, USA