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This book explores heavy metal in Madagascar as an existential practice, rooted in the particular realities of an Indian Ocean island yet shaped by the aesthetic experience of a globalized sound and imaginary.
Heavy metal has been listened to in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, since the 1970s. A substantial metal scene emerged in the mid-1980s before declining in the 1990s, in line with global trends. Around 2010, Malagasy metal experienced a sudden and forceful comeback. This book provides an ethnography of heavy metal's return to Madagascar. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the sonic strategies of Malagasy metal, examines how musicians and fans engage with its aesthetic imaginaries, and follows their efforts to align aspirations for a global sound with the constraints of local conditions. In doing so, it shows how Malagasy heavy metal resonates with everyday life in Madagascar's urban highlands, and argues that it speaks to local conditions by aesthetically transcending them.
Heavy Metal in Madagascar examines how heavy metal provides Madagascar's musicians and fans with existential orientation through the sensual knowledge offered in moments of aesthetic experience. Combining theoretical argument with thick ethnographic description, it argues that it is through metal's sonic agency that this music relates to the actual lives of Madagascar's metalheads, and thereby to the social, cultural, and historical worlds within which Malagasy metal unfolds. Overall, the book seeks to understand the dual nature of Malagasy metal's social and cultural situatedness: its engagement with the demands of its particular circumstances, and its capacity to dialectically transcend them through the meaningful experience of its distinctive sounds.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Malagasy Metal, Aesthetics, Existence
2. Fury: The Power of Malagasy Metal
3. Darkness: Satan in a Christian World
4. Virtuosity: Metal, Technology, and Scarcity
5. Sentimentality: Commerce and Culture
Epilogue: Sounds Beyond Words
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | Mar 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216476382 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 9 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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