Table of Contents

* Introduction: From Heavy Metal to Extreme Metal * Chapter One: The Extreme Metal Scene * Chapter Two: The Scene and Transgression * Chapter Three: Experiencing the Scene * Chapter Four: Capital, Power, Infrastructure * Chapter Five: Comparing Extreme Metal Scenes * Chapter Six: Extreme Metal and Subcultural Capital * Chapter Seven: Reflexivity, Music and Politics * Chapter Eight: The Scene and Modernity * Appendix: Details of Quoted Interviewees

Promotional Information

Also available in hardback, 9781845203986 GBP55.00 (December, 2006)

About the Author

Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris is an independent scholar, an associate lecturer at the Open University, an associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College and a founder of the Centre for New Jewish Thought. His website is www.kahn-harris.org.

Reviews

'This fasinating book ... provides real insights into the margins of our culture.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Sharp, engaging, and staggeringly comprehensive. 'Extreme Metal' is a must-read for metal fans and anyone interested in the study of popular music and subcultural politics in a globalizing age.' Sam Dunn, Co-Director, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey 'Although its a thorough work of sociological research, looking at how scenes work differently in different countries, as well as what unites them, delving into the close-knit interactions and often isolationist perspecitives that accommodate each other so uniquely and much more, anyone involved in the metal scene can regonise their own relationship with extreme metal in the book, as well as understand the bigger picture.' Neuro/Vision Extra: Extreme Metal 'Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge offers a comprehensive and long overdue documentation of the extreme metal scene and its bizarre and terrifying facets. ... Anyone desiring to read further on post-subcultural thinking and the loaded issue of scene participation within late modernity, or, indeed, anybody with a passing curiosity about the 'fear-laden' culture that is extreme metal, will find much of interest within this book.' Popular Music, Vol. 27/2, 2008