Turkish Metal

Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-26167-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. The book applies an ethnographic approach in order to study social and cultural change in a Muslim society that is stricken with conflict over the, by turns, religious or secular nature of the state. Turkish Metal explores how Turkish metalheads, against all odds, manage to successfully claim public spaces of their own, thereby transforming the public face of the city. The book raises the question of how and why the young dare to rebel against the prevalent social and moral restrictions in Turkish society; and it examines whether they succeed in asserting their individual freedom in a society that is still well-known for sanctioning any kind of behaviour deviating from the norm. Above all, the book investigates the Turkish metal scene's potential for contesting Islamic concepts of morality, its relevance within the field of female emancipation, and its capacity to foster social relations that cut across national, religious and ethnic boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hecker, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; Closing in.; Turkish metal; Children of Satan; Media manipulations; Towards the extreme; Metal and gender; Metal matters; Appendix; Discography; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Pierre Hecker is a lecturer at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. He holds a doctorate in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies and is the author of numerous articles on heavy metal in the Middle East.