2007/12/13 by Jonathan Pieslak · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Diverse Musicological Studies #Timbre #Identity (music) #Scholarship #Identification (biology) #Sound (geography) #Musical #Subject (documents) #Perspective (graphical) #Sociology #History #Aesthetics #Linguistics #Art #Visual arts #Acoustics #Computer science #Philosophy #Political science #World Wide Web #Law
paper · doi:10.1017/s0261143008001451
openalex publication_date 2007/12/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract Most of the existing literature on metal approaches the subject from a sociological, anthropological or historical perspective, dedicating more attention to the surrounding musical (sub)cultures and their transformations than to the songs and music itself. This essay addresses this gap in recent metal scholarship by examining issues of sound, text and identity in one of the most influential and popular metal bands of the post-grunge era, Korn. I interpret possible meanings within ‘Hey Daddy’, a track from Issues (1999), based on the relationships among the music, both as pitch and sound/timbre, and the text. In addition, I explore different processes of identification, offering an assessment of identification in the genre of metal and challenges in respect to listener identity in ‘Hey Daddy’.