MODERN HEAVY METAL:
The “Modern Heavy Metal” (MHM) conference will review, explore and discuss the current standing of metal; the plethora of its forms, cultures, practices, and markets. The conference will consist of research presentations, keynote speeches, industry/artist/media panels and other metal-laden program. In addition to the academic contents, the plan is to create close connections to the metal practice: the artists, their managers and other stakeholders, media, as well as the general metal audience. The event week will most likely include other metal entertainment spread over the evenings and the weekends.
The suggested themes include (but are not limited to):
- Metal music industry and markets; global and local views, formation and structure of markets, entertainment and cultural industries
- Metal management; strategic thinking, branding, visual communication in metal, metal export/import, leadership and roles, creative management
- Metal practices; music, production, technology, performance, delivery
- Metal cultures; fandom and fan communities, local communities, transnational/global communities, tribalism metal and social media, mainstream and subcultures, metal generations, gender and metal, artistic identity
- Form and philosophy of the metal genre
- Sound and structure of metal music
- Metal narratives, lyrics, and storytelling
- Metal and belief systems, metal and religion
- Politics, ethics and moral of metal
- Artistic and aesthetic considerations; metal (in) art, metal representations, aesthetic experience, bodily experience
- History, present and future of metal; transformations of the genre
- Scope and methods of metal studies
- Metal on the borderline; positions and connections of metal within the popular music and popular culture context
- Various topics exploring the phenomena and representations of metal and related genres.
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
- MSWord & PDF –documents
- Max 300 words, 1 page, single-spaced, times new roman
- Including: author name, affiliation, email, title, abstract body
- Abstract body should describe the proposed contents of the paper: background, contribution, methods, tentative results (list of references not needed)
- Submission may also be made in the form of a session proposal, including a title page with proposed session title & short rationale for the session + abstracts of all included papers (4-5 papers per session)
- Abstracts will be reviewed by the Local Organizing Committee; review will focus on the relevance of the theme to the conference and overall quality of the proposals.
- Specific guidelines will be given along with the notification of acceptance
- 3000-5000 words
- Papers will be subject to double blind review by an International Review Committee, review will focus on the relevance of the theme to the conference and academic quality of the papers.
- Accepted / Conditionally accepted (revision required) / Rejected
- Improved on the basis of reviewers’ comments
- The full papers received by the deadline will be included in the Conference Proceedings book, available in the conference
- Possibilities for a post-conference publication, with more advanced papers, may be discussed with selected authors during and after the event.
- More detailed program and conference venue will be announced closer to date
- Tentatively, the conference program will extend over three days: Tuesday 9/6, Wednesday 10/6 and Thursday 11/6
- Additional sessions and/or various pre/post-conference program may be arranged on Monday 8/6 and Friday 12/6
- The conference week may include a variety of side program in the evenings/weekends
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