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Edited by Colin A. McKinnon, Niall Scott and Kristen Sollee Can I Play with Madness? Critical Issues Series Editors DrRobert Fisher DrDaniel Riha AdvisoryBoard DrAlejandroCervantes-Carson DrPeterMarioKreuter ProfessorMargaretChatterjee MartinMcGoldrick DrWayneCristaudo RevdStephenMorris MiraCrouch ProfessorJohnParry DrPhilFitzsimmons PaulReynolds ProfessorAsaKasher ProfessorPeterTwohig OwenKelly ProfessorSRamVemuri RevdDrKennethWilson,O.B.E ACriticalIssuesresearchandpublicationsproject. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ TheEthosHub ‘HeavyFundametalisms’ 2011 Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation Edited by Colin A. McKinnon, Niall Scott and Kristen Sollee Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford,UnitedKingdom © Inter-DisciplinaryPress 2011 http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ The Inter-Disciplinary Press is part of Inter-Disciplinary.Net – a global network for research and publishing. The Inter-Disciplinary Press aims to promote and encourage the kind of work which is collaborative, innovative, imaginative, and which provides an exemplar for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permissionofInter-DisciplinaryPress. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire.OX298HR,UnitedKingdom. +44(0)1993882087 ISBN:978-1-84888-057-3 FirstpublishedintheUnitedKingdomineBookformatin2011.FirstEdition. Tableof Contents Introduction ix PART1 AnalysingInsanity Goethevs.Rammstein:WhoisAllowedtoPlay 3 withMadness?TheInfluenceofMusicalTaste onPrejudiceagainstHeavyMetalLyrics JuliaKneer,DianaRieger,LenaFrischlich andDanielMunko DeathandLife:TheRoleofMusicandOthers 15 RuteRodriguesandAbílioOliveira TextualAnalysisofSongLyricsAdoptinga 25 MentalHealthDiagnosticStandardasMethod RichardE.WilsonandMikeThomas PART2 DisparateDisciplines:TheoreticalApplications ofMadnessinHeavyMetal TwoSteps pastInsanity:TheExpressionof 35 AggressioninDeathMetalMusic DanielFrandsen CanProgressiveMetal’sNarrativeInformSocial 41 StigmaTheory?PainofSalvation’sThePerfect ElementParts1and2asExamples NelsonVaras-Diaz HystericDesire:SexualPositions,SonicSubjectivity 51 andGenderPlayinGlamMetal KristenSolee PART3 MoreMadnessintheMetalMethod:ASpectrum DisorderofTheoreticalandAppliedResearch Approaches NoMethodintheMadness?TheProblemofthe 63 CulturalReadinginRobertWalser’sRunningwith theDevil:PowerMadnessandGenderinHeavy MetalMusicandRecentMetalStudies AndyR. Brown QualitativeResearchinUnderstandingthe 73 MetalCommunity IgorGafarov HeavyMetal,Identity WorkandSocialTransitions: 79 ImplicationsforYoungPeople’sWellBeing intheAustralianContext PaulaRowe PART4 Rippingit Up:MetalasaSymptomofaCivilised andAggressiveDisorder HeavyMetalRitualsandtheCivilisingProcess 93 GarySinclair CyclesofMetalandCyclesofMaleAggression: 101 AgeingandtheChangingAggressiveImpulse SamirPuri MetalDisorder,MetalDisturbance 111 NiallScott PART5 ChallengingPerceptionsonMetalandSuicide WarinsideMyHead:Metal,MentalIllness 121 andPsychicEnergy ColinA.McKinnon Suicide,MetalMusicandExpectancyTheory 133 AlickKay EmoSavedMyLife:ChallengingtheMainstream 143 DiscourseofMentalIllnessaround MyChemicalRomance RosemaryHill DoesDeathandSuicideSoundLiketheMusic 155 YouHear? AbílioOliveiraandRuteRodrigues PART6 PositivelyMad:BlackMetalHealthandthe ConstructionofIdentity PlayingwithMadnessintheForestofShadows: 169 Dissonance,DevianceandNon-Comformityinthe BlackMetalScene KarlSpracklen LordSatan’sSecretRitesandSatanismasSelf- 177 Therapy:TheCreationofaMasculinityGender IdentitywithinBlackMetal SannaFridh ‘AFuroreNormannorum,LiberaNosDomine!’ 185 AShortHistoryofGoingBerserkinScandinavian LiteratureandHeavyMetal ImkevonHelden Introduction ColinA. McKinnon,Niall Scott and KristenSollee Madness has been one of the prevailing themes in metal from the very outset, not only in the lyrical and musical expressions of the artists and bands and the genre’s fascination with insanity, but also as an important feature in how metal itselfisperceivedbyothers,whetherthroughtheaggressiveexuberanceofmusical andfanexpression,initsalienation,inthechaotictheatreofthepit,orthelinksin the mainstream mind between metal and suicide or mental illness. This eBook gathers together contributions presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Heavy Fundametalisms:Music,MetalandPolitics,heldinPragueinNovember2010.The conferencedrewtogetherscholarsfromaroundtheworldtodiscussandpresenton varioustopicsofmetalandmadness,includingrepresentationsofaggressioninthe music and fans, concepts and portrayals of madness in sub-genres such as black and death metal, gender roles and the subversion of those roles, perceptions and prejudices,heavymetalasself-therapy,anddepressionandsuicidality.Theeditors are proud to present this collection of chapters; all of those included demonstrate the sociological, philosophical and psychological depth of metal and raise importantquestionsandinsightsintothefutureofmetalmusicstudies. Weopenthisvolume withananalysisofinsanity.Twoareasstillratherunder- utilised in metal studies are empirical and psychological research. Traditionally, both these areas have been difficult to approach when it comes to studies of musical genres and fans, but recent evidence suggests that this is beginning to change. A good example is the empirical study on perceptions and prejudices concerning metal lyrics by Julia Kneer, Diana Rieger, Lena Frischlich and Daniel Munko in, ‘Goethe versus Rammstein: Who is Allowed to Play with Madness? The Influence of Musical Taste on Prejudice against Heavy Metal Lyrics’. They examined howlyricalinterpretation maybe biased dependingonthe perceptionof the fans or non-fans. They demonstrated this using excerpts from a song by Rammstein and a poem by Goethe on which it was based. Their results showed how perception influences interpretation, leading to biased judgement. Rute Rodrigues and Abílio Oliveira show empirical research framed through social representation theory from a study of 1226 adolescents. In their essay ‘Death and Life: The Role of Music and the Others’ they show how social representations differ according to musical preferences and the opinions of others. In particular, they show the differences in the understanding and representation of death and suicidebetweengirlsandboys,andbetweenyoungerandolderadolescents.Inthe final chapter in this section Richard E. Wilson and Mike Thomas examine the representationofmentalillnessinrockand metalusingthe DSM-IVmanualasthe reference standard. Their research presented in: ‘Textual Analysis of Song Lyrics Adopting a Mental Health Diagnostic Standard as Method’ focuses on lyrics from
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