Sociology Speaker Series

Event Date: 
Monday, February 12, 2018 - 10:00am EST
Event Location: 
ATAC 5036/OA 3041
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Dalibor Misina
Event Contact Phone: 
343-8376
Event Contact E-mail: 
dmisina@lakeheadu.ca

Sociology Speaker Series

presents

Dr. Matthew Unger

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

(Montreal, PQ)

 

SOUND, SYMBOL, SOCIALITY:

The Aesthetics of Extreme Metal Music

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Although typically understood as a genre of transgression, extreme metal comprises a staggering diversity of ideas and symbolic themes expressive of identity, politics, social relations and the many modalities of fault within contemporary frameworks of meaning.

Using French philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s theories of symbols, Dr. Unger explores the genre’s symbolic and thematic diversity to show that the aesthetic choices of extreme metal are common to contemporary existence and important to social institutions such as religion, science, and politics.

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Monday, February 12, 10:00am-11:30am

Thunder Bay | ATAC 5036

Orillia | OA 3041

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FREE EVENT 


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