Description Defining \'Australian metal\' is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike.
About the Author Dr Catherine Hoad is Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies in the School of Music and Creative Media Production, Massey University Wellington, New Zealand..
However, this collection also reveals how Australianness can manifest in Metal in ways that can challenge stereotypical imaginings of national identity, and assert new modes of being Metal \'downungerground\'.
Authors address the question of whether there is anything particularly \'Australian\' about Australian Metal music, finding that often the \'Australianness\' of Australian Metal is articulated through wider, mythologised archetypes of national identity.
With chapters from researchers and practitioners across Australia, each chapter maps the distinct ways in which \'Australianness\' has been grappled with in the identities, scenes, and Cultures of heavy Metal in the country.
In doing so, the collection not only explores what can be meant by Australian metal, but what can be meant by \'Australian\' more generally.
This book considers the multiple ways in which \'Australianness\' has been experienced, imagined, and contested throughout historical periods, within particular subgenres, and across localised Metal scenes.
While numerous Metal Scenes exist throughout the country, \'Australian metal\' itself, as a style, as a sound, and as a signifier, is a term which cannot be easily defined.
Australian Metal has long been situated in a complex relationship between local and global trends, where the geographic distance between Australia and Metal music\'s seemingly traditional centres in the United States and United Kingdom have meant that Metal in Australia has been isolated from international scenes.
Description Defining \'Australian metal\' is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike
