Music at the Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Hush, May I Ask You All for Silence? (Scott A. Wilson)
• Elitist Aesthetics: Extreme Metal Fans as ­Taste-Makers and ­Gate-Keepers (Damion Sturm)
• Noise as Power: Bad Brains and the Aesthetics of Race in Hardcore Punk (Shayna Maskell)
• The Bodies of Metal: Imaginaries, Aesthetics and Shadows (Alessandro Porrovecchio)
• Power Electronics and Conventionally Transgressive Assembly Work
• (Andrew Whelan)
• Laibach Is Laibach: Overidentification as Dissensus in Neue Slowenische Kunst (Janus C. Currie)
• Scandinavian Heavy Metal as an Intertextual Play with Norse Mythology (Anna G. Piotrowska)
• Black Metal, Forked Tongue: Satanism, Paganism and the Persistence of the Medieval (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter)
• Where Myth and Metal Collide: Finnish Folk Metal (Tai Neilson)
• “In the Name of Satan”: Violence, Extreme Metal and Young People in Colombia in the ’80s and ’90s (Saul Mauricio ­Rodriguez-Hernandez)
• The (Un)Popularity of ­White-Power Music (Kirsten Dyck)
• “The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare”: Industrial Masculinity and Coil (Gregory Steirer)
• Heavy Metal’s Ironic Edge: Distortion, Demonization and Noise Control (Sabatino DiBernardo)
• Blossoms Will Sprout from the Carcass: Ecological Thinking in American Black Metal (Kyle Koeppe)
• Doused with Scorn and Dollars: Insane Clown Posse’s Paradox of Cool and the Culture Industry (Rahima Schwenkbeck)
• Outlaw Christ: Sacred Revolt in the Work of GG Allin (Thomas Fabisiak and Joseph Laycock)
• About the Contributors
• Index