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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"metal music"”.
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MODES IN HEAVY METAL MUSIC
<p>Modality is quite commonplace in heavy metal music, including some of the less common modes such as Phrygian and Locrian. This thesis provides musical examples and analyses of heavy metal music based on theories of scholars such as Brett Clement and Nicole Biamonte and demonstrates how modes are …
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Hate Couture: Subcultural fundamentalism and the Serbian Black Metal Music Scene
This work is an ethnography of the Serbian black metal music scene. Through ethnographic descriptions and a study of the manner in which social scientists have conceptualized youth movements and scenes in the past decades it is hoped to present a study of an international phenomenon from the …
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Expressing Identity, Experiencing Belonging, and Everyday Life in Heavy Metal Music
When heavy metal fans traverse through their everyday life, they are faced with countless opportunities to engage in social interactions with others. Such interactions question, establish, and strengthen fans’ heavy metal identities whilst providing them with a sense of community and belonging …
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A classification of the dress of heavy metal music groups using content analysis
… was a qualitative study of the dress of heavy metal (HM) music groups using content analysis. The purpose was to examine dress characteristics of a representative random sample of HM music groups. The objectives were (a) to develop a classification system for HM music groups based on time and …
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'I Wanna Rock:' A Critique of Gender Essentialism in Metal Music Scholarship
As Metal Music Studies (MMS) emerges as a field it is important that members of the field who research gender remain critical of the ways in which we do so. Protecting the autonomy of women participants in both MMS studies and in overall metal culture should be of utmost importance. This research …
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Metal music as critical dystopia : humans, technology and the future in 1990s science fiction metal
Metal Music as Critical Dystopia: Humans, Technology and the Future in 1990s Science Fiction Metal seeks to demonstrate that the dystopian elements in metal music are not merely or necessarily a sonic celebration of disaster. Rather, metal music's fascination with dystopian imagery is often …
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Mosh pits and mental health: metal communities and emerging adults' well-being
… this thesis I will examine relationships between metal music and community participation and the mental well-being of so-called "emerging adults" within these communities. Building upon previous research on these relationships, I examine how emerging adult mental well-being is affected – both …
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The biology of heavy metal : evolutionary links between science and culture
The modern landscape of heavy metal can be seen as a splintered and interconnected mass of seemingly disparate styles and sub-styles. Literature that examines the history and culture of this music is increasingly common, but musicological study into the nature of developments within metal music are …
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Musical process and the structuring of riffs in Metallica.
This study focuses on the 1980s thrash metal music of Metallica. It analyzes the harmonic and melodic nature of Metallica's riffs and examines how musical processes help shape the formal structures of these riffs. Drawing upon Robert Hopkins's and Wallace Berry's ideas of progression, recession, …
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THE SCREAM NOTATION SYSTEM: A NOTATIONAL SYSTEM FOR SCREAMED VOCALS
<p>In Western music notation, there is no specified system of notation for screamed vocals, a style of singing that has become increasingly popular since the late 1970s with the advent of metal music and seen increased interest in screams in other genres since. Screams are a unique and diverse …
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Do Different Music Genres Differentially Affect Autonomic Activity? How Music and Sound Affect Autonomic Activity Aroused by Visual Stimuli
… sought to determine whether different genres of music would differentially influence measures of autonomic nervous system activity (heart rate, galvanic skin response) while viewing visual stimuli in a sample of college students. All participants listened to the same songs and music genres and …
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Sacred Metalcore: A worship, culture, and missiology study of the Christian metal scene
… within the subculture context of the modern metal music scene. Specifically, I survey important pieces of literature about both the secular and the sacred versions of the metal scene and examine how the Christian faith is put into practice within the scene in terms of worship style and …
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Still Life and Death Metal: Painting the Battle Jacket
… jacket is a customised garment worn in heavy metal subcultures that features decorative patches, band insignia, studs and other embellishments Battle jackets are significant in the expression of subcultural identity for those that wear them, and constitute a global phenomenon dating back at …
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Subjectivity In American popular metal: contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child
… thesis examines the subject in Popular American Metal music and culture during the period 1994-2004, concentrating on key artists of the period: Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Tura Satana and My Ruin. Starting from the premise that the subject is consistently portrayed as being …
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A "nihilistic dreamboat to negation"? : the cultural study of death metal and the limits of political criticism.
… have consistently viewed heavy and extreme metal as less culturally significant, less empowering for fans and less worthy of study than other major genres of popular music. Metal has been viewed as a reactionary and unproductive encounter with anger, aggression and alienation: a “nihilistic …
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Postmodern humanism and the "exhaustion of easy life"
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Does It Really Matter?
After we moved to San Marcos so I could attend graduate school, my wife and I visited several local churches with hopes of finding a church home. On one of these visits at a local church, we were browsing in the foyer before the meeting started, and I found a pamphlet about the church. When I read …