1st Global Conference
Monday 3rd November – Wednesday 5th November 2008
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 (1.4b)
Monday 3rd November 2008
from 12.30
Registration
13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Niall Scott
14:00
Session 1: Aesthetics and Existentialism
Chair: Niall Scott
Carmen DeAnna
Tragic Metal
Daniel Frandsen
Suicide, Booze and Loud Guitars: The Ethical Problem of Heavy Metal
Michael Nagenborg & Christian Hoffstadt
“You’re too Fuckin’ Metal for your own good” Controlled Anger and the Expression of Intensity and Authenticity in Post-modern Heavy Metal
15.30
Tea
16:00
Session 2: Religion/Spirituality
Chair: Rebecca Forrest
Natalia Motos
The Sacred Immersed in Heavy Metal
Marcus Moberg
Turn or Burn? The Peculiar Case of Christian Metal Music
Kathleen McAuley and Elizabeth Clendinning
The Call of Cthulhu: Narrativity of the Cult in Metal
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17:40
Wine Reception
Tuesday 4th November
09.30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 3A: Subculture
Chair: Colin McKinnon
Ilgin Ayik
Pentagram (A.KA. Mezarkabul): Founders of Turkish Heavy Metal
Pierre Hecker
Heavy Metal in a Muslim Context: The Rise of the Turkish Metal Underground
Session 3B: History
Chair: Angelique Moreau
Simon Poole
All Tomorrows Become Yesterday: Stoner Rock’s Construction Through Nostalgic Historiography
Robert Rutland
Roots Metal: Rediscovering the Origins of Heavy Metal in Stoner Rock
Imke von Helden
Barbarians and Literature: Viking Metal and its links to Old Norse Mythology
10.30
Coffee
11.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Extreme Metal in Distorted Utopias
Chair: Marcus Moberg
Sarah Chaker
Extreme Music for Extreme People(!?!) Black and Death Metal put to Test in a Comparative Empirical Study
Jeremy Wallach
Distortion-drenched Utopias: Metal and Modernity in Southeast Asia
Session 4B: Filling the Metal Void
Chair: Elizabeth Clendinning
Claudia Azevedo
Metal in Rio de Janeiro1980’s-2008: An Overview
Brian Hickam
Filling the Void: The Heavy Metal and Hard Core Punk Archiving Project
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: Gender & Identity
Chair: Keith Kahn-Harris
Florian Heesch
Metal for Nordic Men? Amon Amarth’s Representations of Vikings
Rebecca Forrest
Mud Shark: Groupies and the Construction of the Heavy Metal Rock God
Mikael Sarelin
Masculinities within Black Metal: Heteronormativity, Protest Masculinity or Queer?
15:30
Tea
16.00
Session 6: Cultural Theory and the Music
Chair: Claudia Azevedo
Scott Wilson
From Forests Unknown: Eurometal and the Audio Political Unconscious
Joseph Blessin
Modalities of the Avant-garde: The Aesthetic Role of Light in the Parallax of Alexander Scriabin’s Opera, Mysterium and Heavy Metal Performance
Dietmar Elflein
Slaying the Pulse : Rhythmic Organisation and Rhythmic Interplay within Heavy Metal
17.30
Sessions End
Wednesday 5th November
09.30
Session 7: Race and Identity I
Chair: Joseph Russo
Laura Wiebe Taylor
Nordic Nationalisms: Black Metal takes Norway’s Everyday Racisms to the ‘Extreme’
Justin Davisson
Extreme Politics and Extreme Metal: Strange Bedfellows or Fellow Travelers?
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Race and Identity II
Chair: Carmen DeAnna
Andy Brown
The Importance of Being ‘Metal’: The Music Press and Youth Identity Construction
Karl Spracklen
True Ayryan Black Metal: The Meaning of Leisure, Belonging and the Construction of Whiteness in Black Metal Music
Keith Kahn-Harris
How Diverse Should Metal Be? The Case of Jewish Metal.
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 9: Phenomenology
Chair: Scott Wilson
Nicola Masciandaro
What is This that Stands before Me?: Metal as Deixis
Joseph Russo
Nile’s Primal Ritual – Induction of the Devotee
Jamerson Maurer
Fire walk with Me; or Dwelling in the Lodge of Differentiation
15:30
Tea
16:00
Session 10: Ethics/Politics
Chair: Robert Rutland
Niall Scott
Politics? nah.. Fuck Politics man! (What can we expect from metal Gods?)
Richard Floeckher
Fuck Euphemisms: How Heavy Metal Lyrics Speak the Truth About War and Oppression
17.00
Development Meeting
17.30
Conference Close
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