Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- 10 Metal Identities and Self-Talk
- 11 Metal in Women
- 12 Refuse/Resist
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
10 - Metal Identities and Self-Talk
Internal Conversations of Belonging, Empowerment, Well-being and Resilience
from Part III - Metal and Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- 10 Metal Identities and Self-Talk
- 11 Metal in Women
- 12 Refuse/Resist
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Contrary to decades of speculation about the poor mental health of heavy metal fans, newer research (and research conducted with heavy metal fans) has begun to reveal some of the more positive and nuanced outcomes of heavy metal music and culture for well-being (for examples see Dingle and Sharman 2015; Rowe and Guerin 2018). Moving beyond a focus on the music itself, this chapter builds on notions of metal as a protective factor for mental health by exploring three domains of psychosocial well-being through a lens of heavy metal identity formations. Those being stress and coping, belonging and purpose, and certainty of self in an unpredictable world. Concluding comments propose that the internal identity dialogue of metal fans and its interplay with the embodiment of metal identities have significant value for steeling oneself against some of the most pervasive social and emotional threats of modern life.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music , pp. 131 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023