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Heavy Metal Bricolage: Religious Imagery and “Religionized” Visual Language in Music Videos

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dc.creatorPflugfelder, Lavinia
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:06:06Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:06:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractPopular music’s use of visual media makes its listeners also its viewers. From concert posters, tickets stubs and stage design to music videos, CD covers and clothes, material visual products are utilized by bands and fans alike to emphasize their sound, represent ideas or lyrics, self-stylize, sell the product and generate recognition for their in-group. As with other forms of popular culture, there is intensive exchanges between the fields of religion and heavy metal. Religion can appear within popular culture in the form of explicit or implicit religious themes, content, images, symbols or language; popular culture can appear in religion as the appropriation of different elements by a religion; popular culture can itself be analysed as religion, usually using a very broad functionalist definition of religion; and finally, popular culture and religion can be in dialogue. Focusing on the incorporation of religious iconography and imagery in hevay metals visual language opens questioning of the particular form of bricolage and the motivations of selection concerning individual visual elements. Which factors determine this exchange? How does bricolage help to understand the recycling and restructuring of motifs? And how does this specifically concern religious images?en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.6:2020.2.6
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19529
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/235
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20723
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectHeavy Metalen
dc.subjectReligious Imageryen
dc.subjectVisual Languageen
dc.subjectMusic Videosen
dc.subject.ddcddc:780
dc.titleHeavy Metal Bricolage: Religious Imagery and “Religionized” Visual Language in Music Videosen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-23T11:19:18
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/235
local.source.epage85
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleReligion and Popular Music
local.source.spage65
local.source.volume6

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