Book Review : Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music
of Javanese black metal ; the first she terms “ Black Metal for a New Java ,” in which musicians have commodified adat ( Adat istiadat ( rituals ) are practices deriving from pre-Islamic elements outside the teaching of Islam ). The other strand Chelini describes as a touristic culture and heritage mentality . Citing anthropologist Michael Picard ’ s work evaluating the importance of the economic value of culture and its importance to the cultural identity of an island people , Chelini notes that the Balinese developed an awareness of “ culture ” that has influenced the incorporation and monetization of local sounds , tales , and identity in the music scene .
The chapters remaining reach across the oceans�Joseph Norman ’ s chapter , “ From the Bogs of Aughiska : Dark Ambient , Folklore , and Irish National Identity ” presents the links between “ Heritage Black Metal ” and the distinct culture of the West Country�heritage , history , politics , landscape , and folklore . Drawing on the history and heritage of Ireland , and County Clare specifically , Norman connects the musical output of founder Conchur O ’ Drona ’ s Bogs project to the Irish Gothic tradition of the Weird , the uncanny , and the sublime . Although full of idiosyncrasies and contradictions , these reflect the tensions between black metal elitism and nihilism , and folk populism and optimism . Noting that Biddle and Knights 1 have argued for the nation as “ a crucial but ambivalent category for understanding how cultural texts and practices function in the construction of personal and collective identities ” ( quoted in Norman , 118 ), Norman ’ s project connects personal experience to broader regional and national concerns , “ using heritage to knit the Irish extreme music scene together , and to help disseminate that island ’ s culture and history to the broader associated with such musi-
1 Biddle , Ian , and Vanessa Knights , Eds . Music , National Identity and the Politics of Location : Between the Global and the Local , Routledge , 2007 .
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