Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
2nd Global Conference
Wednesday 11th November – Thursday 12th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme
Wednesday 11th November 2009
from 09.30
Registration
10.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Niall Scott
11:00
Session 1: Dissonance, Dissidents and Max Volume Technology
Chair: Niall Scott
Dissonance and Dissidents
Sarha Moore
Louder than Hell: Power Volume and the Brain
Colin McKinnon
Intelligent Equalisation principles and Techniques for Minimising Masking when Mixing the Extreme Modern Metal Genre
Mark Mynett
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 2: A Nation of Metal: Power, Nationalisms and Myth
Chair: Karl Spracklen
White Power Black Metal and Me: reflections on Composing the Nation
Caroline Lucas
Scandinavian Metal Attack: The Power of Northern Europe in Extreme Metal
Imke von Helden
Title to be Confirmed
Andreas Salmhofer
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 3: The Terrible Truth of Power and Aesthetics
Chair: Colin McKinnon
Living for Music, Dying for Life- The Self Destructive Lifestyle in Heavy Metal Culture
Daniel Frandsen
Metal Community and aesthetics of Identity
Igor Gafarov
More on Metal and the Aesthetic Experience of Tragic Art
Carmen Deanna
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Thursday 12th November
09.00
Session 4: A Little Louder Please? The Power of Words Not So Softly Spoken
Chair: Imke von Helden
Spreading the Disease: How Scholarly Communication, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives are Establishing Heavy Metal Studies as a Rising Force
Brian Hickam
Communication Function in Estonian Metal Subculture
Lii Araste
“I’m a Metal head”: The Representation of Women Letter Writers in Kerrang! Magazine
Rosemary Hill
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 5: The Swagger of Death: Sex, Gender and Power
Chair: Daniel Frandsen
Den Mothers and Band Whores: Gender, Sex and Power in the Death Metal Scene
Sonia Vasan
Gorgoroth’s Gaahl’s Gay! Power, gender and the Communicative Discourse of the Black Metal Scene
Karl Spracklen
Harder, Faster, Stronger: Representations of Masculinities in Heavy Metal Music
Duygu Yildirim
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 6: The Power of Threat: Violence, Language and Change
Chair: Carmen DeAnna
Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums: Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of Warfare
Samir Puri
The Common Vernacular of Power Relations in Heavy Metal and Christian Fundamentalist Performances
Christine James:
Doing the Devil’s Work: Heavy Metal and the Threat to Public Order in the Muslim World
Mark Levine
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 7
Brian Hickam/steering group Discussion on MMP journal and what’s next in MMP
17.30
Conference Close
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