'Sons of Northern Darkness': Heathen Influences in Black Metal and Neofolk Music.

The focus of this article is on the influence of heathenism on popular music, specifically on Black Metal and Neofolk. These two genres, or more correctly scenes, are converging - something which is interesting in itself as purely musical similarities are nonexistent. Both scenes are permeated by he...

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Publicado en:Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 514 - 545
Autor principal: Granholm, Kennet
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2011
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