Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology

by Scott Wilson

Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and 'ecology' melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces that the question of intervention in the environment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780991894
• ISBN13: 9781780991894
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"