Sound, text and identity in Korn's 'Hey Daddy

Bibliographic Data

ID4304172
AuthorsJonathan Pieslak (0000-0001-7572-4845, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume27
Issue1
Pages35-52
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143008001451
OpenAlexW2160098964
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

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

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Musical · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Sound (geography · Subject (documents · Timbre · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy

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