I am the Black Wizards: Multiplicity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture

 
 
 
 

I am the Black Wizards: Multiplicity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture

Show simple item record


dc.contributor.advisor Clinton, Esther en_US
dc.contributor.author Olson, Benjamin Hedge en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-08T18:34:50Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-08T18:34:50Z
dc.date.created 2008 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-08T18:34:50Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206132032 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/15595
dc.description Black metal represents one of the most dramatic, violent and obscure representations of contemporary international popular culture; it is an extremist sect of an extremist sect. An understanding of popular culture's most extreme polarities is imperative to an understanding of its range and general character. I will argue that black metal culture is radically different from all other forms of metal and must be understood as a unique form of cultural expression that signifies a dramatic break from both traditional metal and secular modernism. Although black metal has proliferated across the world, taking up certain indigenous variations in its various locations, it has retained three basic characteristics that make it exceptional and significant: 1.) Black Metal is characterized by a conflict between radical individualism and group identity and by an attempt to accept both polarities simultaneously. 2.) Black metal is centered on an extravagantly romantic view of nature and an idealized past, both of these concepts being very much intertwined. 3.) Black metal celebrates the irrational and primal; it is a critique of modern rationalism and secularism. en_US
dc.format application/pdf en_US
dc.format 134p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
dc.rights Copyright and permissions information available at the source archive en_US
dc.subject black metal en_US
dc.subject heavy metal en_US
dc.subject extreme metal en_US
dc.title I am the Black Wizards: Multiplicity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name MA en_US
dc.degree.level masters en_US
dc.degree.discipline Popular Culture en_US
dc.degree.grantor Bowling Green State University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK en_US

Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record