CURRENTLY SOLD OUT
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-10113826167X
ISBN-139781138261679
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038686387
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTurkish Metal : Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society
Publication Year2016
SubjectEthnomusicology
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic
AuthorPierre Hecker
SeriesAshgate Popular and Folk Music Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Table Of ContentContents: Introduction; Closing in...; Turkish metal; Children of Satan; Media manipulations; Towards the extreme; Metal and gender; Metal matters; Appendix; Discography; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisTurkish 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., Turkish Metal uncovers the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. 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.
