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• New essay by me on dangerous and devilish sounds

  5 January, 2018

  Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017

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• What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure

  29 October, 2017

  View on my Medium blog…

• My recommendations for Five Books on Heavy Metal

  22 January, 2017

  Five Books on Heavy Metal…

• New co-edited metal studies collection

  30 March, 2016

  Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies (co-edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall Scott)

  

   

  Published by Routledge, April 2016. Read more here

  This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and …

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• New chapters in scholarly metal studies collections

  “Introduction” (with Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen and Niall W. R. Scott) and  “A Reply to Scott and O’Boyle.” In Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies, edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris,

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• New talk online

  28 September, 2015

  ‘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]…

• Update

  18 December, 2014

  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 Papers for a new collection on Jews and Metal

  22 May, 2014

   

  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

• Metal Beyond Metal

  20 December, 2013

  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 …

• Quote from Boston’s metallic rabbi

  1 September, 2013

  “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 …

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