Sound, Symbol, Sociality The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal M
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 m
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Matthew P. Unger
Sound, Symbol, Sociality
Matthew P. Unger
Sound, Symbol, Sociality The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music
Matthew P. Unger Department of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ISBN 978-1-137-47834-4 ISBN 978-1-137-47835-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47835-1
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This book looks at how sound reveals the normative constitution of the social world, how sound is a site of political and moral contestation, and how it has become a significant marker of identity and social patterns. People have always understood that music and sounds are significant expressions of meaning and symbols. Music is an assumed and ubiquitous aspect of our social world that is characterized just as much by the global as it is by the local. It is embedded within a continual dialectic between corporate production and incorporation and individual expression and subcultural creation. Music and sound is also a profoundly controlled medium used to mark or reinforce group boundaries and as a mode of social control and exclusion. Popular music has encountered moral entrepreneurs for its possibility to shape and influence people’s lives and has been key instigators of moral panics around the world. Extreme musics are a particularly interesting and powerful example to examine how sound is a meaningful medium that is reflective of culture, symbols, and social patterns. In this book, I argue that the mus
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