Heavy Metal - Controversies and Countercultures - Titus Hjelm
‘I want you to support local metal’: A theory of metal scene formation
Heavy Metal - Controversies and Countercultures - Titus Hjelm
Jeremy Wallach
Bowling Green State University
Mark LeVine [+]
University of California, Irvine
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Mark LeVine is Professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture and Islamic studies at University of California Irvine and author and editor of several books, including Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2008 and Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (Zed Books, 2009).
Description
The following chapter aims to articulate an explicit theory that can be applied to metal scenes across the planet. Such a theory must go beyond synchronic conceptions and instead account for the emergence, devel- opment, and continually fluctuating fortunes of local heavy metal scenes, including considerations such as generational succession, relations with neigh- bouring scenes, and the role of musical amateurism