Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: University of London-Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Müzik, Birleşik Krallık
Tez Danışmanı: Henry Stobart
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2015
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
Özet:
Death plays an important role in human life, and there have been many
theories about how this inevitability affects human thought, and social
life. According to anthropological studies, death and death-related
phenomena, including rituals, music, the meaning of death, are based on
the originating cultures. This makes depressive suicidal black metal
music an interesting case study, because of its inherent involvement
with death ideas. This paper focuses on this music genre and the
examples existing in the repertory to investigate and provide a view on
the meanings of death. Wilson argues that ‘the mourning and melancholy
of black metal is essentially […] [a] mourning of death –not the death
of someone, or something or some lost past, but for death itself’, and
the voice in black metal reveals that the only meaning is the meaning of
death. Doom metal, when lyrically analysed, deals with ideas of
melancholy, death, suicide, grief, and loss. ‘Ontological security’
developed by Anthony Giddens emerges as one of the crucial theories in
order to show black and doom metal songs from a taboo breaking
perspective. Mellor defines ‘ontological security’ as ‘persons having a
sense of order and continuity in relation to events in which they
participate’. It can be also argued that ‘the existential confrontation
with death […] has the potential to open individuals up to
[Kierkegaardian] dread, shattering ontological security.’