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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(2), pp. 82 - 91
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040205
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Norse Myth and Identity in Swedish Viking Metal: Imagining Heritage and a Leisure Community
Irina-Maria Manea *
Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania
ABSTRACT
This paper will be exploring how a specific category of popular music known as Viking Metal thematically reconstructs heritage and what meanings we can decode from images generally dealing with an idealized past more than often symbolically equated with Norse myth and antiquity. On the whole we are investigating how song texts and furthermore visual elements contribute to the formation of a cultural identity and memory which not only expresses attachment for a particular time and space, but also serves as a leisure experience with the cultural proposal of an alternate selfhood residing in the reproduction of a mystical heroic populace. The study case is that of a few contemporary Swedish Viking Metal bands and particularly their appropriations of Norse mythology.
KEYWORDS
Metal Music, Leisure, Heritage, Norse Myth
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[1] Irina-Maria Manea , "Norse Myth and Identity in Swedish Viking Metal: Imagining Heritage and a Leisure Community," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 82 - 91, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040205.
(b). APA Format:
Irina-Maria Manea (2016). Norse Myth and Identity in Swedish Viking Metal: Imagining Heritage and a Leisure Community. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(2), 82 - 91. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040205.