On Extremity

From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall W.R. Scott, Bryan A. Bardine, University of Dayton , Bryan A. Bardine, University of Dayton

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 June 2023

Heavy Metal music; Communication studies; Popular culture

Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations

On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.

Contributions by: Bryan A. Bardine University of Dayton, Niall W.R. Scott
Edited by: Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall W.R. Scott, Bryan A. Bardine, University of Dayton
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781666905205
ISBN 10: 1666905208
Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 15 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Bryan Bardine is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton. Niall W.R. Scott is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire.

Reviews for On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

"Inspiring. A book that deploys the concept of Extremity not as a catchall straight-jacket, but as a launching point into the elusive term's ever-expanding possible meanings. From listening to extreme noise to becoming one with extreme silence; from screaming against sexism and trauma to throwing an oppositional gaze at colonialism; from invoking memory to challenging forgetfulness, from confronting the shock of modernity to contending with the banality of the era of Post-Truth: the chapters contained herein position Extremity as a prescient field for years to come. Like the best interdisciplinary work, the editors and contributors to this volume illuminate a key feature of our contemporary condition from multiple angles. When metal studies began as a new field of study, many wondered if it would bring a new theoretical lens to current cultural debates. The idea of ""extremity"" might well be that unique contribution. That is reason enough to recommend this book highly! On Extremity is a ground-breaking collection of essays that promises to shift our understanding of a concept that is often used but rarely scrutinized. While rooted in studies of metal the editors and authors expand outwards to other forms of art and practice, forging connections between multiple extremities."