The International Research Biennial in Metal Music Studies most important in the world will arrive for the first time to Spain, specifically Seville between June 3 and 6.
The International Society of Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and Metal Music Studies Spain They are responsible for the Seventh International Conference Biennial of Research in Metal Studies, an event that can be followed in both face -to -face and online format.
Under the name of New Metal Worlds: Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backsthe ISMMS-SPAIN Biennial It will have more than one hundred speakers, distributed in about thirty specialized tables during the four days that the event will last. It is an academic congress in which musicologists from different parts of the world will participate, specialized in metal through fields of study such as popular music, cultural analysis and other related disciplines of humanities and social sciences.
The Biennial is under the direction of Dra. Susana González MartínezPresident of MMS-SPAIN and organizer of the Rock and Metal Encounter academic days at the University of Jaén. On the other hand, they integrate the Organizing Committee, DRA. María J. Miranda Suárezprofessor in the area of aesthetics and arts theory of the University of Oviedo; Estefanía García Estevepsychologist, professional singer and activist; Erika Salasethnomusicologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; Rubén G. Herreramusical journalist, anthropologist and cultural manager; and Luis Guerrero TitosAudiovisual Media Specialist at the University of Jaén. This connection between professionals so different from each other has been forming during the last years, especially in the Rock and Metal Metal Encounterwhich celebrated its fourth edition in 2018.
The theme of the Biennial focuses its interest in the bridges and transits that announce a crossing towards the new emerging worlds of metal. Likewise, the event proposes the exchange of ideas, dialogue and critical reflection on borders, crosses, interstices and relational spirals, inter and transdisciplinary, epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, social, cultural and artistic among the different agents between the different agents between the different agents and territories within metal music studies. Universities collaborate: Faculty of Geography of History (University of Seville); Complutense University of Madrid; Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Granada; University of Córdoba; University of Jaén; University of Oviedo; University of La Laguna.
If you want to attend as a public, you can do it by registering in this same link.
