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Walch, Florian.

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Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre./
Author:	Walch, Florian.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	312 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-02A.
Subject:	Music theory. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30568901
ISBN:	9798380141499

Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre.
Walch, Florian.

Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 312 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2023.

This dissertation examines how the analog-digital transition influenced the development of extreme metal, interpreting its present obsession with fine sub-generic distinctions and "old-school" revivals of analog aesthetics as a means of coping with an uneasy dependence on digital media. While extreme metal's values developed in analog networks, its transcendence of aural and bodily limits required digital prostheses. The digital divide in accessing these contested technologies structured extreme metal's system of sub-genres, which-like the remembered inconveniences of the past-memorialize now-lost resistances.This dissertation's arc is conceptual and chronological. Its introduction and conclusion frame its inquiry with present concerns, while the inner chapters are case studies that progress from undifferentiated analog beginnings in the 1980s to sub-generic crystallization up to the arrival of the digital audio workstation in the mid-1990s. Using archival materials, newly conducted interviews, and close readings of musical records, these case studies put vernacular theories into dialog with discourses drawn from the musicology of record production, music theory, and critical theory. Ultimately, these constellations aim to articulate a constitutive relationship between what it means to analyze, make, and enjoy popular music.{A0}This dissertation's contributions are twofold. First, it provides models for the analysis of popular music grounded in the historically conditioned values of an aesthetic community-and how these values are adapted to disruptions. Second, this dissertation argues that (sub-)genre, as the promise of being able to repeat (increasingly narrow) aesthetic experiences, requires technologies that make this repetition possible-at least in fantasy.The Introduction uses ethnographic vignettes to establish the contemporary importance of sub-genre and nostalgia. Chapter 1 asks why pioneering musicians can claim to have heard extreme{A0}metal before it existed, by manipulating the time-axis of existing records on tape or vinyl players. This fetish-like objectification of creativity reflects a disavowal of subjective creativity. Chapter 2 analyzes death metal drumming's labor theory of value, demonstrating why digital drum sample replacement was both essential and intolerable for the development of the prized blast beat, which was valued as concrete time, but measured as abstract time. An Interlude examines how moral panics around backmasking let horror-inspired album introductions transmit different messages to insiders and outsiders. Chapter 3 reconstructs the digital-analog assemblage Morrisound Studios used to create the signature hyper-real performance associated with death metal and explores how its aural trace made the digital divide audible. Chapter 4 argues that the death metal production aesthetic undermined the groove-based forms of grindcore, examining how former grindcore bands re-record their own songs in a death metal idiom. Chapter 5 contests the notion that black metal was only a return to an imagined analog past, analyzing it as a post-digital style that used the devaluation of human performance it critiqued in death metal to incorporate influences from electronic dance music. The Postlude returns to the present and considers what is at stake when resistances are lost to remediation.{A0}

ISBN: 9798380141499Subjects--Topical Terms:

547155
Music theory.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Analog networks

Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre.
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