"Sans compassion nor will to answer whoever asketh the why": Personal sovereignty within black metal.

Hoffin, Kevin (2014) "Sans compassion nor will to answer whoever asketh the why": Personal sovereignty within black metal. Metal Music Studies, 5 (2). ISSN 20523998

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Abstract

The importance of personal sovereignty in black metal cannot be overstated. After all, we are the "wolves among sheep." Presented here are the results of a documentary analysis (consisting of subcultural output and various studies) research project intended to analyse the wolf imagery in black metal wherever it may appear and regurgitate and reform these depictions in terms of their representations of personal sovereignty. For those who embrace the lycanthropic and colour their interactions with the world around them with hues of such dark, lupine tenets, this project will peruse these values through the philosophical kaleidoscopes. It will posit, hopefully convincingly, that the black metal subculture is rife with complications and contradictions- a paradoxical slant into a personal sovereignty that can never be attained, remaining frustratingly out of reach.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1386/mms.5.2.1_1
Dates:	Date Event 1 September 2014 Accepted
Subjects:	CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-02 - sociology CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-01 - social sciences (non-specific) CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies CAH19 - language and area studies > CAH19-04 - languages and area studies > CAH19-04-02 - German and Scandinavian studies
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > College of Law, Social and Criminal Justice
Depositing User:	Kevin Hoffin
Date Deposited:	20 May 2019 10:48
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 12:50
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7485