Metal music, sonic knowledge, and the cultural ear in Europe since 1970 : a historiographic exploration

"Research on the process of European integration is usually restricted to the political, economic and legal aspects of Europeanisation. Still, we do not know enough about "practiced Europeanisation" in terms of everyday life and popular culture. Here, Peter Pichler explores a new area of research. He links the latest insights into the cultural history of the European Union with interdisciplinary research on heavy metal as a subculture throughout Europe. He presents the first historiographic exploration of European integration in this subculture since 1970. In general, subcultural Europeanisation predates even political Europeanisation, as evidenced by networks of the metal scene breaking through the Iron Curtain in the beginning of the 1980s. The European metal scene constituted a borderless space. Today, the shared knowledge of rituals, codes, clothes, history and values of metal are present across the continent. Pichler interprets this from a cultural-historical perspective against the background of Europeanisation after 1945."--Back cover Content Chapter 1: Introduction The Dynamics of Sonic Knowledge in European Metal History Part 1 - Theoretical Structures of Sonic Knowledge Chapter 2: Prolegomena Chapter 3: Narratives, Narrations, and Emplotment Chapter 4: Identities and Identitary Practices Chapter 5: Europeanness, Transnationalism, and Entanglement Chapter 6: Time. The Album Chapter 7: Space. The Tour Chapter 8: Thinking Conceptually. The Pentagon of Sonic Knowledge Theory Part 2 - Albums, Tours, Events, and Practices Chapter 9: The Construction of Metal’s Time Concept in Europe. Black Sabbath’s Debut Album (1970) Chapter 10: Rendering New Space on Europe’s Me(n)tal Map. Motörhead’s ‘Classic’ Tours (1976–1982) Chapter 11: Spawning the 1980s. Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast (1982) Chapter 12: Spatially Explicating Europe. Manowar’s Hail to Europe Tour (1986) Chapter 13: Slayer’s Reign in Blood (1986). A European Rereading in the 21st Century Chapter 14: The Convergence of Space and Time as a Door-Opener to the 1990s. Mayhem’s Concert in Leipzig (1990) Chapter 15: How to Survive the 1990s. Pyogenesis’ Journey through the Genres (1992–2015) Chapter 16: Black Metal Goes Science. Temple of Oblivion’s Traum und Trauma (2014) Chapter 17: A Historian at a Newly Established European Extreme Metal Festival. Metal on the Hill (2016) Chapter 18: Black Metal and a Medieval Castle. The Conbuncture of Listening and Watching in a Historian’s Mind (2016) Chapter 19: Thinking Empirically. Weaving the Carpet of European Metal History Chapter 20: Conclusion Figures and tables References Index