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Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music
Matthew P. Unger
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Description for Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music
Hardcover. Num Pages: 137 pages, 5 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: AVGT; HPK; HPN; HR; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 257 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical community, this book interprets aesthetic resonances as a way to understand contemporary identity, politics, and social relations. In the end, this book develops a unique argument: the internal composition of the community’s music and sound moulds symbols that shape, reflect, and constrain social patterns of identity, difference, and transgression. This book contributes to the sociology of sound and music, the study of religion ... Read more
Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical community, this book interprets aesthetic resonances as a way to understand contemporary identity, politics, and social relations. In the end, this book develops a unique argument: the internal composition of the community’s music and sound moulds symbols that shape, reflect, and constrain social patterns of identity, difference, and transgression. This book contributes to the sociology of sound and music, the study of religion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Number of Pages
137
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137478344
SKU
V9781137478344
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99-15
About Matthew P. Unger
Matthew P. Unger is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. He is co-editor (with George Pavlich) of Accusation: Creating Criminals and Entryways and Criminalization. His work encompasses social theoretical and archival approaches to socio-legal ethics, religion, and sound.
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