On Extremity - From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences to reflect on extremity's polysemic and polymorphic characteristics.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - On Extremity: A Manifesto
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine

SOUNDS

Chapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Extreme Sounds
Niall Scott

Chapter 3 - Essential Musicality: Extreme Music and the Sounds of Everyday Life
Ross Hagen

Chapter 4 - Extremities within Extremity: Sisterhood as Strategies of Resistance in the UK Underground Metal Scene
Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

Chapter 5 - Voices for the Voiceless: Animal Rights and Extremity in Extreme Music
Edward Banchs and Anna Chilewska

Chapter 6 - No Satisfaction: Aihiyo after The Rolling Stones
Robin Purves 

IMAGES AND WORDS

Chapter 7 - Extremity - Art - Decoloniality: Lessons for Survival in the Work of Puerto Rican Artist Rafael Trelles
Nelson Varas-Díaz

Chapter 8 - The Limits of Extremity: The Disappearance and Return of Extremity in Late Capitalism
Jason J. Wallin

Chapter 9 - Seeking the Banality in the Extreme: Prescient Identifiers of Vapid Narcissism in an Era of Post-Truth
Vivek Venkatesh

Chapter 10

About the author

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University. Niall W.R. Scott is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire.Niall W.R. Scott is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire.Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University. Bryan Bardine is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton.Sheilla R. Madera is professor at Florida International University. Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor at Florida International University. Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico.Ross Hagen is associate professor of music studies in the Department of Music at Utah Valley University. Vivek Venkatesh is dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University.

Summary

This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences to reflect on extremity’s polysemic and polymorphic characteristics.

Product details

• Authors: Nelson Scott Varas-Diaz
• Assisted by: Bryan A Bardine (Editor), Bryan A. Bardine (Editor), Niall W. R. Scott (Editor), Niall W.R. Scott (Editor), Scott Niall W.R. (Editor), Nelson Varas-Diaz (Editor), Nelson Varas-Díaz (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781666905205
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-520-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Communication Studies, Popular Music, Heavy Metal music, Metal, Heavy Metal