'Roots'?: the relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene

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Harris, Keith. 2000. 'Roots'?: the relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene. Popular Music, 19(1), pp. 13-30. ISSN 14740095 [Article]

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Music's 'malleability' (Taylor 1997) has always facilitated its export and import from one location to another. Indeed, such processes are central to the creation and dissemination of new musical forms. Yet in our contemporary globalised world, such processes occur ever more extensively and rapidly giving rise to new forms of appropriation and syncretism. Record companies from the developed world find new audiences in the developing world (Laing 1986). Musicians from the West appropriate non-Western music, sometimes collaboratively (Feld 1994; Taylor 1997). Non-Western musicians and musicians from subaltern groups within the West create new syncretic forms drawing on both Western and non-Western music (Mitchell 1996; Lipsitz 1994, Slobin 1993). The resulting 'global ecumene' produces considerable 'cultural disorder' (Featherstone 1990, p. 6) whose results cannot easily be summarised.

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Article

Keywords:

music, malleability, export, import, global, local, musical forms, appropriation, syncretism, Record companies, record company, Non-Western musician, non-western music, subaltern, cultural disorder

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology > Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)

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