Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood: (Re)sounding Whiteness

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	Metal and Critical Whiteness Studies
	Objectives and Methodology
	Structure of the Book
	Conclusion
	References
2 Mapping Representation in Metal Music Studies
	Introduction
	Whiteness, Texts and Leisure
	Deconstructing the Default Metal Fan
	Class, Masculine Transgression and Individuality
	Spectacular Whiteness and Racism
	Whiteness, Virtuosity and Majority Cultures
	The Problem(s) with Global Metal
	Conclusion
	References
3 Norwegian Black Metal and Viking Metal
	Introduction
	Mapping Norwegian Whiteness in Metal
	History of Norwegian Metal and Scholarly Appraisals
		Norse Ethnosymbolism in Norwegian Black Metal
		Satanism as a Response to Christianity, Capitalism and Globalisation
		Radical Transgression, Racism and Spectacular Violence in Black Metal
		Elitism and Anti-modernity
	Peripheral Whiteness and Isolation in the Norwegian National Image
	Politics of Monstrosity, Transgression and Counter-Colonialism
	Viking Whiteness in the Social and Genetic Imaginary
	Pastoral Neopaganist Fantasies and the Econational Nordic Self
	Conclusion
	References
4 Afrikaans Metal in Post-Apartheid South Africa
	Introduction
	Imagined African Geographies in Metal Music Studies
	Whiteness and Afrikaner Nationalism in Post-apartheid South Africa
	Afrikaners in the ‘Post-apartheid Culture Industries’
	Melting Pots and Moral Panics: Heavy Metal Music in Post-apartheid South Africa
	Afrikaner Nationalism and the Post-apartheid Culture Industry
	Metal for Modern Afrikaners
	White Indigeneity, Victimhood and Genocide in Afrikaans Metal
	Conclusion
	References
5 Normophilia and Banal Nationalism in Australian Extreme Metal
	Introduction
	Down Under(Ground): Metal in Australia
	Violence and Mundanity: Conditions for Australia’s Exclusionary Whiteness
	Soldiers, Sappers, Saints: White Men as Symbols of Banal Nationalism
	Anti/Colonial Whiteness and Indigenous Displacement
	Brutality in the Backyard: Sacred Suburbia and Exclusory ‘Everyday Blokes’
	Conclusion
	References
6 (Re)sounding, (re)sealing: Translocal Terrains of Whiteness across Norway, South Africa and Australia
	Introduction
	‘Sealing’ Whiteness
	Finding the Nation in Metal: Ethnonationalism and Narrative Belonging
	Mapping Metallic Nationalisms
	Monstrous, Resistant and Banal Nationalism in Perspective
	Authenticating Authenticity: Crafting White Indigeneity
	Colonisation, Displacement and Indigenisation
	Colonial Ecologies of White Mastery and Black Alienation
	Redressing Metallic Ideology: Transgression, Rebellion and Progressivism
		Discursive Transgression—Conservativism and Neofascism
		Liberalism, Progressivism, Anti-fascism
		Apolitical Misanthropy
	Power Structures, Commercialisation, Generational Gaps
	Conclusion
	References
7 Conclusion
	Reflections on of the Research
	Drawing Implications: Consequences and Effects
	Looking to the Future
	Coda
	References
Index