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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 …