果冻影院

Speaker: Amanda DiGioia (果冻影院 SSEES)

The objective of my PhD study is to examine gender as a part of the complex web of cultural connections between Finnish women and heavy metal.

Looking at gender as performance via an ethnography of Finnish female heavy metal music fans will serve to illustrate the Finnish metal scene鈥檚 expectations of people based on their gender. Heavy metal academics, such as Keith Kahn-Harris, the British author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, have gone as far to say that 鈥渉eavy metal is almost celebrated as one of the country鈥檚 major cultural exports鈥� (Baird, 2013, n. pag). Due to the genre鈥檚 popularity, this will also shape a larger understanding of gender in Finnish society. This study of gender in the Finnish heavy metal music scene, upon its completion, will also show what constructions surrounding the female gender are or are not adopted from broader Finnish culture. This presentation will focus on the background gender studies in metal music studies, as well as the background of Finnish heavy metal music in metal music studies, before closing with my PhD work plans. Amanda DiGioia is a first year PhD Student at SSEES. Her research interests include gender theory, heavy metal music, and horror studies. Her first book, Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts: The Marginalized and the Monstrous, (featured in the 鈥楢lternativity and Marginalization鈥� series through Emerald Group Publishing) will be released this fall.聽

A seminar hosted by the 果冻影院 SSEES Social Sciences & Arts and Humanities Research Student聽 Seminars.
Student Coordinators: Peter Braga and Liisa Tuhkanen

Image: Finnish band Nightwish at Tuska Open Air 2013 By Cecil (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 () or CC BY-SA 3.0 ()], via Wikimedia Commons