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Karl Spracklen - Metal and Goth Leisure, Inbunden

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Metal and Goth Leisure

Performativity, Identity and Belonging

Av Karl Spracklen

Del i serien Leisure in Action (CABI Concise)

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Metal and goth are forms of popular music, and popular culture, that continue to dominate leisure in action today. Alternativity and sub-culture are used to control, construct and create various forms of subaltern, hegemonic and counter-hegemonic identities and communities. Metal and goth challenge the mainstream, the culture industry of Adorno (1991), but they are also part of the mainstream. Metal and goth worldwide are seen by outsiders as exotic forms of dark leisure, but metalheads and goths just want to be seen as normal people who just like to dress in black. Many goths want to be seen as distinct from metal, and many extreme metal fans do not want to be mixed up with the mainstream metal industry. The aim of this book is to understand the tension between metal and goth, sub-culture and popular culture, performativity and leisure spaces, from the histories of the two forms to their futures. Building on Karl Spracklen's extensive research and his insider status as a fan, the book is aimed at researchers and students interested in metal and goth in leisure, sociology and popular culture.
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Karl Spracklen worked for many years in various roles at Leeds Beckett University, culminating in Professor of Sociology of Leisure and Culture in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, published by Springer for Research Committee 13 (Sociology of Leisure) of the International Sociological Association. He was one of the co-founders of the International Society for Metal Music Studies, and the first Principal Editor of its journal Metal Music Studies, published by Intellect. He is an inter-disciplinary scholar with roots in leisure studies, popular music studies and sociology. His main research interests remain the intersections of communities, identities, inequalities and the meaning and purpose of leisure spaces. He has written hundreds of research outputs, including eight research monographs, edited collections, book chapters, special issues of journals, and journal articles. Most of his research interests - extreme metal, rugby league, subcultures, Scottishness, SF and fantasy fandom, goth culture - drive from his own passion as a fan and a consumer and a tourist; though he is also interested in social justice, the far-right and their presence online, and the new work and the new leisure.

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