The weird global appeal of heavy metal

[BWV 1080]

not weird to me, but to the WSJ:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-weird-g ... 1455819419

Today’s “world music” isn’t Peruvian pan flutes or African talking drums. It’s loud guitars, growling vocals and ultrafast “blast” beats. Heavy metal has become the unlikely soundtrack of globalization.

Indonesia is a metal hotbed: Its president, Joko Widodo, wears Metallica and Napalm Death T-shirts. Metal scenes flourish in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia and Scandinavia. China got an early seeding of metal 25 years ago when U.S. record companies dumped unsold CDs there. In a male-dominated genre, Russian band Arkona is fronted by singer Maria Arkhipova. Language barriers are less significant in the metal world, which is all about the sound, an often dissonant drone not grounded in any one musical tradition.
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“When economic development happens, metal scenes appear. They’re like mushrooms after the rain,” says Roy Doron, an African history professor at Winston-Salem State University.

[John F]

There are some who wonder that it appeals to anybody...

[BWV 1080]

how can anyone not like this


or this

[jbuck919]

Very easily, Steve, very easily. I would never question your taste, since you are also such a wonderful connoisseur of classical music, but it is confusing to some of us how the interests can co-exist. Anyway, I shared your post with an old friend on Facebook who has been into heavy metal since he was about 12. He's a complicated sort also. His high-school-age daughter plays the double bass in the school orchestra and is very good at it.

[BWV 1080]

http://mic.com/articles/87385/science-r ... .doleRGMYD

[jbuck919]

Well, i've been listening all my life to the canard that music and mathematics go together. I happen to be an embodiment of that, but I don't think there's much to it. It seems more to me that why anyone appreciates The Art of Fugue must remain a mystery, irrespective of their other qualities and interests or supposed psychological profiles. We're just lucky, as are most of the members of this board. BTW, Contrapunctus 14 has been pretty much solved. The completion is stongly implied in what Bach was able to finish. My great friend whose name I cannot mention because these sites are searchable has produced his own completion and written a scholarly article on it. However, it cannot be far removed from the speculative completion that follows.