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[Диссертация] I Am The Black Wizards: Multiplicity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture/"I Am The Black Wizards": Многообразие, мистицизм и идентичность в музыке и культуре Black Metal


Год: 2008
Автор: Benjamin Hedge Olson/Бенджамин Хедж Олсон
Жанр: Магистерская диссертация
Издательство: Bowling Green State University
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 134
Описание: Магистерская диссертация американского исследователя Бенджамина Олсона посвящена исследованию специфического музыкального жанра - black metal, в частности, культурных и социальных предпосылок, обусловивших его возникновение и расцвет. Предмет рассматривается на примере норвежской сцены - самой известной из локальных сцен black metal.

Black metal represents one of the most dramatic, violent and obscure representations of contemporary international popular culture; it is an extremist sect of an extremist sect. An understanding of popular culture''s most extreme polarities is imperative to an understanding of its range and general character. I will argue that black metal culture is radically different from all other forms of metal and must be understood as a unique form of cultural expression that signifies a dramatic break from both traditional metal and secular modernism. Although black metal has proliferated across the world, taking up certain indigenous variations in its various locations, it has retained three basic characteristics that make it exceptional and significant: 1.) Black Metal is characterized by a conflict between radical individualism and group identity and by an attempt to accept both polarities simultaneously. 2.) Black metal is centered on an extravagantly romantic view of nature and an idealized past, both of these concepts being very much intertwined. 3.) Black metal celebrates the irrational and primal; it is a critique of modern rationalism and secularism.

Доп. информация: Benjamin Hedge Olson is a writer, ethnographer, scholar, and teacher based in Seattle, WA. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and an MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University. Dr. Olson’s dissertation “This Isn’t Paradise, This is Hell: Discourse, Performance, and Identity in the Hawaii Metal Scene” will be available soon.