Owen Coggins
Biographic Data
| ID | 2209951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Coggins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Coggins |
| SIGNATURE | COGGINS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8322-1583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancestral North
Review of: Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music , Ross Hagen and Matthias Nordvig (2022) London: Lexington Books, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-66691-756-7, h/bk, $105.00
Ecology, Estrangement and Enchantment in Black Metal’s Dark Haven
Darkly enchanted environments are an important part of black metal, an extreme underground heavy metal music culture that emerged from Northern Europe in the 1980s-1990s and spread worldwide. Black metal’s distorted music and stark imagery portrays natural landscapes resonating with occult folklore, myth and fantasy; yet this music bewitched with ancient nature relies on electrical instruments, amplification and distortion, and is primarily perfo…
Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation, Karl Spracklen (2020)
Review of: Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation , Karl Spracklen (2020) Bradford: Emerald Publishing, 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-83867-444-1, h/bk, £70.00
Dirty, soothing, secret magic
Taking inspiration from a press article comparing doom metal and New Age music, I explore individualism and magic in these musical cultures, reflecting on the 'dirty, soothing secret' suggested in that article's title. I trace the loosely defined characteristics of New Age music in the limited academic research on the topic, before situating the music in the wider New Age milieu which centres around the epistemological authority of the seeking se…
Religion in hip hop
The Invocation at Tilburg
This paper investigates implicitly religious practices and explicitly (though ambiguously) religious descriptions of the extreme heavy metal music subgenre of drone metal, in a case study focussing on a concert tour of the band Gravetemple. Responding to a conception of “experience” found in scholarship on mysticism and in Bailey’s theoretical framework of Implicit Religion, I suggest a contribution via the work of Michel de Certeau. In The Posse…
Christian metal
Religious experience
Dirty, soothing, secret magic
Taking inspiration from a press article comparing doom metal and New Age music, I explore individualism and magic in these musical cultures, reflecting on the 'dirty, soothing secret' suggested in that article's title. I trace the loosely defined characteristics of New Age music in the limited academic research on the topic, before situating the music in the wider New Age milieu which centres around the epistemological authority of the seeking se…
Religious experience
The Invocation at Tilburg
This paper investigates implicitly religious practices and explicitly (though ambiguously) religious descriptions of the extreme heavy metal music subgenre of drone metal, in a case study focussing on a concert tour of the band Gravetemple. Responding to a conception of “experience” found in scholarship on mysticism and in Bailey’s theoretical framework of Implicit Religion, I suggest a contribution via the work of Michel de Certeau. In The Posse…
Christian metal
Religion in hip hop
Dirty, soothing, secret magic
Taking inspiration from a press article comparing doom metal and New Age music, I explore individualism and magic in these musical cultures, reflecting on the 'dirty, soothing secret' suggested in that article's title. I trace the loosely defined characteristics of New Age music in the limited academic research on the topic, before situating the music in the wider New Age milieu which centres around the epistemological authority of the seeking se…
Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation, Karl Spracklen (2020)
Review of: Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation , Karl Spracklen (2020) Bradford: Emerald Publishing, 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-83867-444-1, h/bk, £70.00
Ecology, Estrangement and Enchantment in Black Metal’s Dark Haven
Darkly enchanted environments are an important part of black metal, an extreme underground heavy metal music culture that emerged from Northern Europe in the 1980s-1990s and spread worldwide. Black metal’s distorted music and stark imagery portrays natural landscapes resonating with occult folklore, myth and fantasy; yet this music bewitched with ancient nature relies on electrical instruments, amplification and distortion, and is primarily perfo…
Ancestral North
Review of: Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music , Ross Hagen and Matthias Nordvig (2022) London: Lexington Books, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-66691-756-7, h/bk, $105.00
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