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“The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet

Mayer, Adam P.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557

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2011, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Sociology.
In 1980, roughly 3,200 heavy metal bands had ever been founded, primarily in about 45 countries in Western Europe and North America. By 2010 there were nearly 75,000 bands from 131 countries found in nearly all corners of the globe. The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the global diffusion of heavy metal music. I argue that the internet is the primary channel through which metal has diffused since 1990. This paper uses a database of heavy metal bands from an international archival website and data from the World Bank, the International Telecommunications Union, and the Polity Project. I employ Poisson regression techniques with country fixed effects to predict the population-adjusted rate of new metal recordings per country-year for the 1990 to 2008 period. I include time-varying controls for political regime, and gross national income per capita. Results indicate that internet usage is positively associated with heavy metal diffusion during the time period under analysis and that this effect was stronger for countries with no history of metal music than for countries that had adopted metal prior to 1990.
Jeffrey Timberlake, PhD (Committee Chair)
Steven Carlton-Ford, PhD (Committee Member)
41 p.
Sociology
diffusion; heavy metal; internet; culture; oppositional

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  • Mayer, A. P. (2011). “The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mayer, Adam. “The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mayer, Adam. "“The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557

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