Book Review: Emma Baulch, Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. 226 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4115-4 (pbk) $22.95

Baulch, Emma

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“…To overcome such powerful hegemonic masculinities, Death Metal fans produce and consume a hyper-masculine look and culture which reaffirms intra-group bonds while keeping others at a safe distance. Self-esteem is increased by the metalheads' feeling that they are part of a global scene (Emma Baulch's "gesturing elsewhere" (Baulch, 2003(Baulch, , 2007) which transports them, at least momentarily and in their imaginations, from their localized poverty and subordinated positions within global capitalism. There is a constant fear of "demasculinization" (Connell, 1995, p. 137) and hence the look and culture of Death Metal is incredibly reassuring, even though it may not be taken literally in every material respect.…”

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“…South American bands, on the border between Thrash and Death, including Sarcofago and Sepultura, had been active as early as 1986 (Sharpe-Young, 2001). Baulch (2003Baulch ( , 2007 documents that the Balinese Death/Thrash scene abandoned Thrash Metal at a certain point in the 1990s when it decided that Death Metal was the most extreme subgenre lyrically, musically, and image-wise. The first Indonesian city to fully embrace the new Death Metal subgenre was Malang, East Java, as even the most diehard Bandung Death Metal person will admit.…”

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Masculinity and underground music scene participation across time: A case study from Indonesia

James

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2022

Metal Music Studies

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The Ujung Berung (Bandung, Indonesia) death metal scene arguably peaked in the years 2009–13. Based on personal interviews and conversations with musicians, we identify four factors adversely affecting the scene at present: (1) decline in community nongkrong/relocation of Serak store at Jalan Cihampelas; (2) those left behind – the disillusionment of the older second-division bands; (3) the new generation’s attitude and perspective and (4) the turn towards religion. We also explore whether Indonesian masculinity is in crisis, because of young Indonesian men’s subordinated place within global capitalism and the threat that capitalism poses to traditional hierarchies. Hypermasculine death metal culture inspires because it is western in origin but not bourgeois – it is a mysterious mix of signs, symbols, sounds and mythologies, which attracts by its very obscurity; it quietly challenges, in its indirect way, the power of Indonesian hegemonic identities such as ‘pious Islamic family-man’ and ‘businessman’.

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Masculinity and underground music scene participation across time: A case study from Indonesia

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2022

Metal Music Studies

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“…[from] elsewhere" (Baulch, 2003(Baulch, , 2007, which Samier wishes to bring back to committed religious faith and practice (and Samier says, speaking in his dual capacity as a Muslim and a metalhead, that "we realize the music has power to state our message"). As the radical theologian Jeffrey W. Robbins (2014, p. 88) writes about St. Augustine: "It is knowledge of God that anchors self-knowledge [from the perspective of the Abrahamic religions]".…”

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“…of talented and motivated underground musicians; and high levels of organization (Baulch, 2007;James and Walsh, 2015;Prasetyo, 2017;Wallach, 2008). 19 It is famous for its penetration into spheres of society not yet reached in other parts of Indonesia including popularity of the genre even among primary-school students and widespread familiarity with the names and even the music of the leading local bands (James and Walsh, 2015).…”

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“…The Indonesian Heavy Metal scene has been well-documented by scholars (including most notably Baulch (2003Baulch ( , 2007, Wallach (2008Wallach ( , 2011, and James and Walsh (2015)); the scene is variegated, longstanding and deeply rooted; and the scene, while largely secular, contains religious elements that have heretofore been understudied. This article represents one of our early attempts to begin to remedy this latter deficiency.…”

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Islamic Religion and Death Metal Music in Indonesia

James

Walsh

2018

Journal of Popular Music Studies

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The Bandung (Indonesia) Death Metal scene is known for its secular orientation whereby religion and religious belief are viewed as personal matters that should be restricted to the private realm. Metalheads may freely go the mosque or church but in their capacities as private citizens only; religious identification and activity is not permitted to infringe upon the scene’s discourses and practices. We look at the differences in discourses and practices between the Jakarta-based One Finger Movement (Islamic) bands and the Bandung secular Death Metal scene. We also study Bandung band Saffar, which was known for its Islamic lyrics on its debut album but which has been for a few years in limbo due to the departure of vocalist and lyricist Parjo. We also look at Saffar’s positioning of itself as a “secular” band with Islamic and anti-Zionist lyrical themes rather than as an Islamic band per se. The secular Bandung scene context is a significant explanatory factor.

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Romancing "Yesenia" How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

Salazkina

2024

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Welker 2018), and developed some of Kretek Capitalism's arguments in an article in Comparative Studies in Society and History (Welker 2021).I appreciate the unwavering support of my mother, Ann Welker, and my sisters Renata Welker and Carla Shumaker. I am especially grateful to my partner, Paul Nadasdy, and our children, Zoli and Andor, for accompanying me on this long journey and making each day special. spice (manis, pedas), and, especially in the case of the hand-rolled kretek and its smoke, qualities of thickness and heaviness (tebal, berat). The white cigarette, by contrast, is bland, tasteless, and light (rasa tawar, enteng) and tends to disappear quickly; once lit, the wind stealthily consumes it even if it's not actively smoked. A white cigarette takes about five minutes to smoke, compared to ten minutes for a machine-rolled kretek and a half-hour time commitment for a hand-rolled kretek. The latter weigh two grams, whereas machine-rolled cigarettes weigh a single gram or less. This book asks how kretek capitalism-understood as the accumulation of capital through the making, exchange, and consumption of clove cigarettes-enlists Indonesians to labor on its behalf in fields and factories, at retail outlets and social gatherings, and online. I focus on the efforts of Sampoerna, a Philip Morris International (PMI) subsidiary that claimed about one third of the Indonesian cigarette market during the 2010s. Kretek Capitalism charts how Sampoerna uses contracts, gamification, self-improvement logics, and class, gender, and age hierarchies to extract overtime, shift, seasonal, gig, and unpaid labor from workers, influencers, artists, students, retailers, and consumers.By centering labor, I develop an account of kretek capitalism that acknowledges but goes beyond the addictive hold of nicotine over individual smokers. Scientists have found that tobacco is harder to quit than alcohol, cocaine, and opiates, underscoring the lively and agentive potential of plants and their significant role in shaping human life (Bennett 2010; Galvin 2018; Langwick 2021; Myers 2017; Russell 2019). The younger a person is when they start using tobacco, the more likely they are to become addicted. Adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts normal brain development, changing how synapses are formed and harming the brain's capacity for attention and learning. Scientists have explicated the physiological mechanisms through which nicotine is absorbed, moving from the lungs into the blood and altering the chemistry of the brain and central nervous system by flooding the brain's reward circuits with dopamine and sparking an adrenaline rush that increases heart rate and raises blood pressure. 3 This kind of universal biochemical rendering of nicotine addiction is critical but insufficient to understanding kretek capitalism because it rests on an individualizing, internalizing, and often pathologizing logic that neglects "broader Marlboro Red Machine-rolled white 495 FF premium 13 1 Marlboro Black Men...

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Book Review: Emma Baulch, Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. 226 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4115-4 (pbk) $22.95

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Masculinity and underground music scene participation across time: A case study from Indonesia

Masculinity and underground music scene participation across time: A case study from Indonesia

Islamic Religion and Death Metal Music in Indonesia

Romancing "Yesenia" How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

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