TY  - CHAP
AB  - I suggest sociality depends on affective encounters between individuals in particular spaces.Through an ethnography of Melbourne's grindcore death-metal scene, I examine how belonging in a music scene is constituted by scene members’ affective encounters. In particular, I suggest that a “brutal” disposition is necessary for cultivating the affective intensities necessary for experiencing belonging in the scene. Using scene members’ own understandings of “brutal” I shift from iconic representations of “brutality,” common in other metal scenes, toward a brutal affect. Here, brutality is experienced as a set of embodied intensities, difficult to articulate, but crucial to understanding how scene members cultivate belonging – in the grindcore scene, and in scenic spaces.
VL  - 35
SN  - 978-0-85724-361-4, 978-0-85724-362-1/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-2396(2010)0000035009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2010)0000035009
AU  - Overell Rosemary
ED  - Norman K. Denzin
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Brutal belonging in Melbourne's grindcore scene
T2  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 79
EP  - 99
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -