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Employing the poetic-philosophic methodology of black metal theory, this chapter enacts a creatively coiled or convoluted critique of Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). Bringing literary figures like H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti into conversation with Jean Genet (who, in his 1979 study of Britain’s music-centred subcultures, provides the behavioural and theoretical model for Hebdige), this text, attuned to the ‘nemocentric’ soundscapes of heavy metal, draws on ‘speculative’ or ‘new’ realism to posit a meaning of style that is non-representative. So, black is myself....
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Connole, E. (2020). On the Meaning of Style: Black Metal’s ‘Black’. In: Gildart, K., et al. Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28475-6_8
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