Status Updates From Connecting Metal to Culture...

"Domination is dialectical; after all, no one is completely without power, just as no one is ever free from victimization. ...Metal is... deeply concerned with the ethics of power and its legitimate use" (102).

Esther Clinton & Jeremy Wallach

from "Diversity in Metal Politics": "'I'm sure they know well we are not the devil sons and they know that metal is Resistance against any corruption, that's why they are against metal culture' [Egyptian interviewee]. The quotation ... puts it in a nutshell. He claims that the power bloc knows that Metal is not a satanic practice and that they are much more afraid of the subversive potential it contains" (94).

"It is a potential medium to examine the expectations of local cultures, challenge them, and even transgress them. As part of the global Metal community, the Latin American and Carribbean women's transgression of gender expectations through their participation in Metal culture suggests a new type of empowerment in the global efforts toward gender equity" (77). --Varas-Díaz, Mendoza, Rivera, & Gonzalez

"Arguably, to fall back on the past (as delievered by those entities claiming authority for serving as the arbiters of taste for rock music) simplifies and streamlines the process of discovery..." (Klypchak, 42)

Just finished Elovaara's chapter on folk & metal and am interested in the role that a native language plays, but for local and international audiences.

I think that lyrics def aren't "the whole point" but they're still a very important one; I'm also interested in how much translation listeners to after entering a song they like.