Description
Book SynopsisOn Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 - On Extremity: A Manifesto
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine
SOUNDS
Chapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Extreme SoundsNiall Scott
Chapter 3 - Essential Musicality: Extreme Music and the Sounds of Everyday Life
Ross Hagen
Chapter 4 - Extremities within Extremity: Sisterhood as Strategies of Resistance in the UK Underground Metal Scene
Jasmine Hazel Shadrack
Chapter 5 - Voices for the Voiceless: Animal Rights and Extremity in Extreme Music
Edward Banchs and Anna Chilewska
Chapter 6 - No Satisfaction: Aihiyō after The Rolling Stones
Robin Purves
IMAGES AND WORDS
Chapter 7 - Extremity – Art – Decoloniality: Lessons for Survival in the Work of Puerto Rican Artist Rafael Trelles
Nelson Varas-Díaz
Chapter 8 - The Limits of Extremity: The Disappearance and Return of Extremity in Late Capitalism
Jason J. Wallin
Chapter 9 - Seeking the Banality in the Extreme: Prescient Identifiers of Vapid Narcissism in an Era of Post-Truth
Vivek Venkatesh
Chapter 10 - Quixotism and Extremity: Cervantes on Authenticity, Delusion, and Reality Literacy in Early and Late Modernity
Bradley J. Nelson
Chapter 11 - Devil Running Wild: Satan and his Minions in Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen
Bryan Bardine
EXPERIENCES
Chapter 12 - Rethinking Extremity through Gender Detransition
Sheilla R. Madera and Alíxida Ramos Pibernus
Chapter 13 - Para’o: Exotic Wake, Extreme Performance and Marginality in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez
Chapter 14 - Pushing the Limits of the “Darkest” Dark Tourism in the Age of Extremity
Jeffrey S. Podoshen
