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Heavy South: Identity, Performance, And Heavy Music In The Southern Metal Scene, Michael A. Mcdowell
Heavy South: Identity, Performance, And Heavy Music In The Southern Metal Scene, Michael A. Mcdowell
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Southern Metal scene depends heavily on the performance of a Southern Identity. While considerable research has been done on other musical genres and scenes from the American South (country music, blues, gospel music), less attention has been given to the extreme metal scene of Southern Metal. Using scholarship of Nadine Hubbs, Philip Auslander, Jefferey C. Alexander, and Keith Kahn Harris, among others, I analyze two films, Slow Southern Steel (2010) and NOLA: Life, Death, and Heavy Blues from the Bayou (2014), and one song, Down’s “Eyes of the South” as cultural productions of this Southern Metal scene. In …
To Utopianize The Mundane: Sound And Image In Country Musicals, Siyuan Ma
To Utopianize The Mundane: Sound And Image In Country Musicals, Siyuan Ma
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Many consider music, songs, and dance performance as utopian signifiers for cinema, but few has entered the utopian discourse of country musicals, a small genre of cinema usually known as country music films. By closely scrutinizing Pure Country (1992), this thesis aims to reveal how country music—as music numbers and as background cues— integrate and connect the fragmented on-screen world for the country musicals so as to offer audiences a fullness of utopian experience, and how this utopian effect are culturally significant for American audiences due to country music’s unique mechanism of constructing utopia and nostalgia in its past-orientations, sentimentalities, …