Heavy Metal, Identity Work and Social Transitions: Implications for Young Peopleâs Well Being in the Australian Context

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äºCan I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation

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Australia brands itself as a multi-cultural society that embraces social and cultural diversity, yet this rhetoric appears somewhat limited to ethnic and religious diversity and less likely to extend to embracing youth cultures and lifestyles on the periphery. This chapter previews forthcoming doctoral research that will investigate the significance of heavy metal music and its culture for young peopleâs âidentity workâ in Australia. Specifically, the research aims to investigate how and why young people use heavy metal music and lifestyles to forge âchosenâ social identities; and how the process of forging chosen metal identities affects young peopleâs social transitions through various social contexts, particularly schooling and school to work transitions. The emphasis on transitions through education and employment stems from current Australian policy prescriptions that demand young people to be engaged in either âearning or learningâ. The focus of these policies is to responsibilise young people towards linear developmental pathways, largely neglecting and/or negating other structural and cultural factors or lifestyle options. In Sam Dunneâs 2006 documentary Metal, A Headbangerâs Journey, Rob Zombie (referring to metalheads) suggests that nobody wants to be the âweirdâ kid, but inevitably there are young people who end up as loners, or outsiders, and are thus drawn to the outsider elements of heavy metal music and its culture. Despite the enduring social disapproval of âmetalâ as an identity, a core of young metalheads exist in schools across western nations which leads this chapter to preview the following research questions. What do young people perceive to gain from forging metal identities against a backdrop of ânormalisingâ policy regimes; and what are the implications of these experiences for young peopleâs social transitions and personal wellbeing?

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Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation

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