Event Title
Session 1: Keynote Address - "Queer Metal Matters: Metal, Sexuality, and the Future"
Location
Kennedy Union Ballroom
Start Date
6-11-2014 9:45 AM
End Date
6-11-2014 11:00 AM
Description
The conference will convene with Dr. Amber Clifford-Napoleone's introductory address, entitled, “Queer Metal Matters: Metal, Sexuality, and the Future.” Dr. Clifford-Napoleone's keynote explores hard and heavy music as a space for challenging ideas about gender, sexuality, and the margins. Through heavy metal, she examines the question: Is there an intersection between queer identities, the politics of alterity, and the future of heavy metal? Using personal experience, metal’s historic past, its stylistic cues, and the voices of over 500 self-identified queer metal fans from around the world, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone discusses the double-edged alterity of queer heavy metal.
Dr. Clifford-Napoleone is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the McClure Archives and University Museum at the University of Central Missouri. A scholar of sexuality and popular culture, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone specializes in sexual subcultures and musical spaces. Her first two books, Queerness in Heavy Metal (Routledge) andQueering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City’s Jazz Scene (University of Nebraska Press), are forthcoming. Her research on heavy metal focuses on gender fluidity in heavy metal, especially as expressed among self-identified LGBTTQQIA+ fans and musicians. In addition to her research, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone also teaches cultural and applied Anthropology, and curates one of the largest collections of Bedouin material culture in existence. Dr. Clifford-Napoleone lives in rural Missouri with her wife Tara, three dogs, and a growing collection of heavy metal records.
Session 1: Keynote Address - "Queer Metal Matters: Metal, Sexuality, and the Future"
Kennedy Union Ballroom
The conference will convene with Dr. Amber Clifford-Napoleone's introductory address, entitled, “Queer Metal Matters: Metal, Sexuality, and the Future.” Dr. Clifford-Napoleone's keynote explores hard and heavy music as a space for challenging ideas about gender, sexuality, and the margins. Through heavy metal, she examines the question: Is there an intersection between queer identities, the politics of alterity, and the future of heavy metal? Using personal experience, metal’s historic past, its stylistic cues, and the voices of over 500 self-identified queer metal fans from around the world, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone discusses the double-edged alterity of queer heavy metal.
Dr. Clifford-Napoleone is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the McClure Archives and University Museum at the University of Central Missouri. A scholar of sexuality and popular culture, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone specializes in sexual subcultures and musical spaces. Her first two books, Queerness in Heavy Metal (Routledge) andQueering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City’s Jazz Scene (University of Nebraska Press), are forthcoming. Her research on heavy metal focuses on gender fluidity in heavy metal, especially as expressed among self-identified LGBTTQQIA+ fans and musicians. In addition to her research, Dr. Clifford-Napoleone also teaches cultural and applied Anthropology, and curates one of the largest collections of Bedouin material culture in existence. Dr. Clifford-Napoleone lives in rural Missouri with her wife Tara, three dogs, and a growing collection of heavy metal records.