New essay by me on dangerous and devilish sounds
Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017
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Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017
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Published by Routledge, April 2016. Read more here
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and …
Tags: keithkahnharrisbooks, metaljew
‘Exploring new frontiers in the aesthetics of metal: Destabilising capital through mediocrity and incompetence’ online talk at University of Southern Denmark, 3 September 2015. [Video of talk here]…
It’s been a long time since I updated this website. I’ve now finally brought the site more or less up to date, at least in terms of logging publications and at least some of the talks I’ve given over the …
Call for contributions to a new edited volume
Black Shabbes: Jews & Metal
Edited by Shamma Boyarin and Keith Kahn-Harris
When the guitarist Marty Friedman auditioned for Megadeath, singer Dave Mustaine loved his playing but told his manager to …
Tags: Jewish metal, metaljew, publications
Souciant webzine has published a series of my essays on metal. The overall theme is what I call ‘Metal Beyond Metal’ – the future of metal in a time of chronic abundance. Here are the seven installments:
1 Too Much …
“I found in heavy metal a music and a culture that supported individuality and rejection of the social norm. I found a culture that said, ‘you don’t have to be like that. You’re not. It’s OK to be different, it’s …