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Volume 5, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2052-3998
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Abstract

Black metal is often considered as being one of the most transgressive subgenres of extreme metal music, especially because of its thematic (e.g. Satanism, nationalism, national socialism). In Québec (Canada), the black metal scene – and more specifically the (MNQ) community – uses themes linked with nationalism, which are transmitted through French lyrics and folk music. Thus, I argue that MNQ members, through their music and discourses, are building a phonographic narrative and an identity-based narrative, which takes its root in Québec’s history and black metal ideology. In order to identify the phonographic narrative of MNQ, I will analyse a song from MNQ repertoire, ‘Ancien folklore québécois’ (Neige et Noirceur 2010), by focusing on the textual narrative elements, while linking them with the musicological parameters of popular music. Finally, I will focus on the concept of identity-based narrative by using the discourses of the community’s members gathered through ethnographic interviews.

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‘Ancien folklore québécois’: An analysis of the phonographic and identity-based narrative of the métal noir québécois community
Metal Music Studies 5, 379 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1386/mms.5.3.379_1
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Keyword(s): black metal; identity-based narrative; independentism; nationalism; phonographic narrative; Québec

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