'Caught In A Mosh': Moshpit Culture, Extreme Metal Music and the Reconceptualization of Leisure - Brossura

Riches, Gabrielle

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ISBN 10: 3848434857 ISBN 13: 9783848434855

Casa editrice: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Riassunto

This study explores the ways in which moshing and extreme metal music reflects and informs the social worlds of metal fans. It investigates how underground subcultural practices contribute to our understandings of how violence, pain, and pleasure can be thought with compassion and possibility in leisure. Key concepts such as liminality (Turner, 1979), Dionysian aesthetics (Maffesoli, 1993; Bataille, 1986/1989), and Cagean philosophy (Cage, 1957; Kostelanetz, 1996) are used to examine the nuances and subtleties of moshing culture, practices and behaviours in Edmonton,Canada. Themes of physicality and reality of participating in a moshpit, pit etiquette, negotiation of space within the moshpit, and the significance of moshing for local metal fans are explored. The study accentuated how tensions, pleasures, and resistant practices are necessary in creating meaningful leisure experiences and calls on us to re-think the ways in which marginal leisure practices can be included within dominant leisure discourses.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Gabrielle Riches is currently a Ph.D Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Her doctoral research is focused on women's involvement in the moshpit within the Leeds metal music scene. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in 2012 from the University of Alberta,Canada in Recreation and Leisure Studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3848434857
• ISBN 13: 9783848434855
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 92
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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