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Informationen zum Autor 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. Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther’s tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy. Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras. Bryan Bardine is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton. 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. Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. Klappentext The book critically examines the issue of community formation in metal music. Via theoretical reflections on communal formation and empirical research in the field, scholars interested in extreme music and community formation will become familiar with this particular collective experience, now prevalent throughout the world. Zusammenfassung The book critically examines the issue of community formation in metal music. Via theoretical reflections on communal formation and empirical research in the field! scholars interested in extreme music and community formation will become familiar with this particular collective experience! now prevalent throughout the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience - Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall Scott Part 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing Collectiveness Chapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena Weinstein Chapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We'll Destroy the House! - Niall Scott Chapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy Wallach Part 2: Strengthening Community Chapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti Karjalainen Chapter 5: "We're in this Together and We Take Care of our Own": Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula Rowe Part 3: Communities in Contextual Interaction Chapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric Morales Part 4: Tensions withi ...
