Prelims

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Medievalism and Metal Music Studies

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Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture

Series Editors: Rosemary Lucy Hill and Keith Kahn-Harris

International Editorial Advisory Board: Andy R. Brown, Bath Spa University, UK; Amber Clifford-Napleone, University of Central Missouri, USA; Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University, USA; Cynthia Grund, University of Southern Denmark; Gérôme Guibert, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; Catherine Hoad, Macquarie University, Australia; Rosemary Overell, Otago University, NZ; Niall Scott, University of Central Lancashire, UK; Karl Spracklen, Leeds Beckett University, UK; Heather Savigny, De Montford University, UK; Nelson Varas-Diaz, Florida International University, USA; Deena Weinstein, DePaul University, USA

Metal Music Studies has grown enormously over the last eight years from a handful of scholars within Sociology and Popular Music Studies to hundreds of active scholars working across a diverse range of disciplines. The rise of interest in heavy metal academically reflects the growth of the genre as a normal or contested part of everyday lives around the globe. The aim of this series is to provide a home and focus for the growing number of monographs and edited collections that analyse heavy metal and other heavy music; to publish work that fits within the emergent subject field of metal music studies; that is, work that is critical and inter-disciplinary across the social sciences and humanities; to publish work that is of interest to and enhances wider disciplines and subject fields across social sciences and the humanities; and to support the development of Early Career Researchers through providing opportunities to convert their doctoral theses into research monographs.

Published Titles

Pauwke Berkers and Julian Schaap, Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production

Paula Rowe, Heavy Metal Youth Identities: Researching the Musical Empowerment of Youth Transitions and Psychosocial Wellbeing

Forthcoming Publications

Catherine Hoad (ed) Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes and Cultures

Peter Pichler, Metal Music and Sonic Knowledge in Europe: A Cultural History

Karl Spracklen, Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

Jasmine Shadrack, Black Metal, Sexuality, Subjectivity and Sound

Interested in publishing in this series? Please contact Rosemary Hill R.L.Hill@leeds.ac.uk and Keith Kahn-Harris keith@kahn-harris.org

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Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Edited by

Ruth Barratt-Peacock

The Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Ross Hagen

Utah Valley University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2019

Introduction, editorial matter and selection © Ruth Barratt-Peacock and Ross Hagen, 2019; individual chapters © their respective authors, 2019.

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Introduction, editorial matter and selection © Ruth Barratt-Peacock and Ross Hagen, 2019; individual chapters © their respective authors, 2019

Dedication

For Sophie, Nora, and Graham

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Musical Examples

List of Contributors

Ruth Barratt-Peacock: Literature and Musicology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Ruth has written on German medieval re-enactment and metal music. Her current research is on early Romanticism, the application of model theory to postcolonial literatures, contemporary Australian poetry, and Anthropocene literature. She is associated with the research-group Modell Romantik: Variation Reichweiter Aktualität.

Shamma Boyarin: English, University of Victoria, Canada. Shamma’s research explores the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages and the interplay between ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ discourses. His work is influenced by scholarly approaches that interrogate what seem like binary oppositions and hard drawn boundaries between categories.

Scott G. Bruce: History, Fordham University, USA. Scott is an historian of religion and culture in the early and central Middle Ages. His research interests include monasticism, hagiography and the medieval reception of the classical tradition. He is a specialist on the history of the abbey of Cluny.

Annika Christensen: Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Annika’s interest lies in Faroese ballads and their role in contemporary Faroese culture, from sculptures to heavy metal music. Other research interests include language, music, and heritage in contemporary formations of national identities.

Brenda S. Gardenour Walter: Medieval History, Boston University, USA. Brenda’s research examines the role of Aristotelian discourse, medicine and scholastic theology in the construction of alterity and the influence of medieval otherness on dark culture. Her work examines the multivalent relationships between cultural constructions of the body, architectural theory, and the natural world.

Ross Hagen: Utah Valley University Orem, USA. Ross’s research interests include music and nostalgia, music fan cultures, black metal, and avant-garde music. His writings have appeared in the books like Metal Rules the Globe, Hardcore Punk and Other Junk and The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures. He is also a performer and composer.

Johannes Hellrich: Digital Humanities, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Johannes’ work focusses on the automated capture of word meanings and methodological issues affecting diachronic research in the humanities. He has also worked on problems affecting multilingual lexical resources as a member of the MANTRA EU project.

Christoph Rzymski: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. Christoph is a Scientific Programmer. His background is in linguistics research with a focus on statistical and corpus-based language analyses. He enjoys working with heterogeneous data sets, finding the common denominator of data points using modern machine learning techniques and statistical methods.

Amaranta Saguar García: Amaranta specialises in Hispanic Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Her main field of research is the late-medieval Spanish masterpiece Celestina. She has published several papers and a monograph on this topic, and is the driving force behind the bibliographical database Bibliografía Celestinesca.

Eric Smialek: Music, McGill University, Canada. Eric’s research uses a mixture of methodologies from music, linguistics, sociology, and philosophy. He developed methods of music analysis for extreme metal screams by analysing vowel formants using spectrographic techniques. He draws on interdisciplinary genre theory to critique taxonomies of genre and develop semiotic approaches to musical form.

Dean Swinford: English, Fayetteville State University, USA. Dean has published recent work in Studies in Medievalism, Classical Traditions in Science Fiction, Modern Philology, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Medieval Perspectives and The Mediaeval Journal. He is also the author of the Death Metal Epic series of novels.

Vitus Vestergaard: Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Vitus’ research focus is on metal studies. He is also interested in exhibition medium and media innovations in cultural institutions, for example Marks of Metal (2015, exhibition) or Extreme Music: Hearing and Nothingness (2016, conference co-organiser and speaker).