Brutal belonging in Melbourne's grindcore scene
Overell, Rosemary
Cite this item:
Overell, R. (2010). Brutal belonging in Melbourne's grindcore scene. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 35, 79-99. doi: 10.1108/S0163-2396(2010)0000035009
Permanent link to OUR Archive version:
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/8381
Abstract:
I suggest sociality depends on affective encounters between individuals in particular spaces. Through an ethnography of Melbourne's grindcore death-metal scene, I examine how belonging in a music scene is constituted by scene members’ affective encounters. In particular, I suggest that a “brutal” disposition is necessary for cultivating the affective intensities necessary for experiencing belonging in the scene. Using scene members’ own understandings of “brutal” I shift from iconic representations of “brutality,” common in other metal scenes, toward a brutal affect. Here, brutality is experienced as a set of embodied intensities, difficult to articulate, but crucial to understanding how scene members cultivate belonging – in the grindcore scene, and in scenic spaces.
Date:
2010
Publisher:
Emerald
Pages:
79-99
ISBN:
978-0-85724-361-4
Keywords:
cul; cultural studies, ethnography, music, metal studies, gender studies, feminism
Research Type:
Journal Article
Languages:
English