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are formed in Christian popular music and how a religious message is com-
municated without diminishing the broad appeal of the songs.
In Act Three, “Heavy Metal Bricolage”, Lavinia Pflugfelder explores the
complex reception of religious imagery and “religionised” visual language in
Heavy Metal and especially Extreme Metal videoclips. She argues that these
clips develop a religious language and a Metal-specific visual programme that
uses and combines imaginary from different religious traditions.
The Interludes each draw on a YouTube videoclip. They discuss Lady Gaga’s
Judas (Katharina Luise Merkert), RosalĂa’s Aunque es de noche (Eva Meien-
berg) and Dorian Electra’s Adam & Steve (Yannick Schlote).
To allow the reader to experience the mediality of the music and the virtual
journal, we have added QR-codes for the music videos in the Interludes, and
provide URLs for the platforms for the videos cited in the Acts. We stronger
encourage readers to watch the music videos analysed in the short reviews,
and also recommend they listen to songs and watch videos mentioned in the
articles. The full possibilities of the media are evident when we hear the mel-
ody, comprehend the lyrics and see how music is visualised for a broad public.
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JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Volume 06/02
- Title
- JRFM
- Subtitle
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Volume
- 06/02
- Authors
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Editor
- Uni-Graz
- Publisher
- SchĂĽren Verlag GmbH
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 128
- Categories
- Zeitschriften JRFM