Gabrielle Riches

'Caught In A Mosh'

Moshpit Culture, Extreme Metal Music and the Reconceptualization of Leisure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the ways in which moshing and extreme metal music reflects and informs the social worlds of metal fans. It investigates how underground subcultural practices contribute to our understandings of how violence, pain, and pleasure can be thought with compassion and possibility in leisure. Key concepts such as liminality (Turner, 1979), Dionysian aesthetics (Maffesoli, 1993; Bataille, 1986/1989), and Cagean philosophy (Cage, 1957; Kostelanetz, 1996) are used to examine the nuances and subtleties of moshing culture, practices and behaviours in Edmonton,Canada. Themes of physicality and reality of participating in a moshpit, pit etiquette, negotiation of space within the moshpit, and the significance of moshing for local metal fans are explored. The study accentuated how tensions, pleasures, and resistant practices are necessary in creating meaningful leisure experiences and calls on us to re-think the ways in which marginal leisure practices can be included within dominant leisure discourses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 139g
• ISBN-13: 9783848434855
• ISBN-10: 3848434857
• Artikelnr.: 35365476

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Riches is currently a Ph.D Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Her doctoral research is focused on women's involvement in the moshpit within the Leeds metal music scene. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in 2012 from the University of Alberta,Canada in Recreation and Leisure Studies.