ERIC Number: EJ1357624
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1063-5734
EISSN: EISSN-1543-3412
Black Metal "Bildung"
Thorgersen, Ketil; von Wachenfeldt, Thomas
Philosophy of Music Education Review, v30 n2 p183-201 Fall 2022
This article is based on results from research that addressed the ways young Black Metal musicians construct their musical learning and socialization. In this article we will focus on one of the strands in that study; a trace of a classic ideal from "Bildung" theory. Using Bildung theory, we explore similarities between the ideals and concepts in the expressed informal music education from Black Metal musicians and contemporary institutionalized music education. In this article the German and Nordic 18th century concept of Bildung will be interpreted as the component that binds and contextualizes knowledge by a dialectic process with already inherited or internalized knowledge. Exploring, identifying, and comparing links between the educative process found within Black Metal and Bildung might at first sight seem to be both a pointless task and potentially reifying of problematic elements found within Black Metal. However, as we discuss, common features of Bildung and Black Metal, such as enlightenment through criticism of the taken-for-granted, a sublime Gesamtkunstwerk and a nihilist striving to become an image of God, help to reveal those ways Black Metal learning processes can be understood in the light of Bildung theories. We do so in order to present tools for furthering the critical discussion of hegemonic music educational discourses.
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Philosophy, Musicians, Music, Learning Processes, Socialization, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Criticism, Religious Factors, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Christianity
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Identifiers - Location: Germany; Scandinavia
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