Sticky post
This is the archive of my blog ‘Metal Jew’ that I wrote – infrequently – from 2005 till about 2012. Many of the links are likely to be dead!…
Metal Jew Archive
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New essay by me on dangerous and devilish sounds
Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017
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What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure
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My recommendations for Five Books on Heavy Metal
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New co-edited metal studies collection
Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies (co-edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall Scott)
Published by Routledge, April 2016. Read more here
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and …
Tags: keithkahnharrisbooks, metaljew
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New chapters in scholarly metal studies collections
…“Introduction” (with Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen and Niall W. R. Scott) and “A Reply to Scott and O’Boyle.” In Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies, edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, -
New talk online
‘Exploring new frontiers in the aesthetics of metal: Destabilising capital through mediocrity and incompetence’ online talk at University of Southern Denmark, 3 September 2015. [Video of talk here]…
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Update
It’s been a long time since I updated this website. I’ve now finally brought the site more or less up to date, at least in terms of logging publications and at least some of the talks I’ve given over the …
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Call For Papers for a new collection on Jews and Metal
Call for contributions to a new edited volume
Black Shabbes: Jews & Metal
Edited by Shamma Boyarin and Keith Kahn-Harris
When the guitarist Marty Friedman auditioned for Megadeath, singer Dave Mustaine loved his playing but told his manager to …
Tags: Jewish metal, metaljew, publications
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Metal Beyond Metal
Souciant webzine has published a series of my essays on metal. The overall theme is what I call ‘Metal Beyond Metal’ – the future of metal in a time of chronic abundance. Here are the seven installments:
1 Too Much …
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Quote from Boston’s metallic rabbi
“I found in heavy metal a music and a culture that supported individuality and rejection of the social norm. I found a culture that said, ‘you don’t have to be like that. You’re not. It’s OK to be different, it’s …
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Miscellaneous Metal Jewish Meshuggas
I haven’t done a metaljew post for a while now, in part because of pressure of work and in part because of website problems. To get me into the mood of posting more regularly, here’s a brief update on some …
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New edited collection: Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures (co-edited with Titus Hjelm and Mark Levine)
Heavy metal is now over forty years old and has developed into a diverse and multi-faceted genre. Wherever it is found and however it is played, metal’s fascination with transgression has often meant it has been embroiled …
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More on the metal and popular culture conference
So the Heavy Metal and Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University has now been and gone. It was a great experience with a consistently high standard of papers and some really interesting discussions. My keynote lecture, ‘Metal After …
Tags: conferences, metal
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Another yeshiva metal band
Last year I posted on a death metal band called Skarthia, whose members are orthodox Jews attending yeshiva in Israel. Today I received an e-mail about another yeshiva metal band:
…Hey my name is Benyamin Smith and I am
Tags: Jewish metal
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New interview
There’s a new interview with me published on the Heavy Metal Artwork website…
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Heavy Metal and Popular Culture Conference
I’m really excited to be giving a keynote lecture at the Heavy Metal and Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, at the start of April. My lecture will be titled ‘Metal After Metal Studies: What Comes Next?’ …
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The Zion Sky Compilation
I don’t think I ever blogged before about the Zion Sky compilation. It’s an extraordinary piece of work in which a variety of neo-folk and noise artists reappropriate Zionist aesthetics in a Laibachian manner.
The project is described …
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Documentaries on metal in Angola and Mozambique
Interest in African metal appears to be growing. There’s a documentary film out now called Death Metal Angola that will have its European premiere at the end of January 2013 in Rotterdam. Another documentary, Terra Pesada, currently in …
Tags: African metal, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique
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What does being Jewish mean to me?
The Jewish Community Centre London and the Jewish Chronicle are running a project called What Does Being Jewish Mean To You? It asks for 100 word submissions (or photos, sounds or videos) that will collectively form a time capsule of …
Tags: Jewish community, Jewish identity
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