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Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures (2023)
Journal Article
Monteanni, L. (2023). Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures. magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, 4(2), 291-327. https://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02/006

This paper sheds light on the connections between musical undergrounds and the global emergence of ‘goblin mode’ as a political aesthetic. In March 2022 The Guardian published an article discussing the popularity of a new locution emerging on social... Read More about Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures.

“More Metal than Metal”: Preliminary Reflections on Imagined Genealogies (2023)
Journal Article
Monteanni, L. “More Metal than Metal”: Preliminary Reflections on Imagined Genealogies. Brief encounters, 1(7), https://doi.org/10.24134/be.v7i1.3

Réak is the Bandung subregional variant of the “horse trance dances”: a popular group of animist performances present throughout and outside Indonesia. During theevent, a trance master coordinates a series of spirit possessions with themusical accomp... Read More about “More Metal than Metal”: Preliminary Reflections on Imagined Genealogies.