Peripheral Linguistic Brutality: Metal Languaging in the Asia Pacific (Asia Pop!)

Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of "metalness" through language in the Asia Pacific.Focusing on the ways local music scenes adopt, reject, and modify linguistic ideologies, Jess Kruk and Wesley Robertson (hosts of the podcast Lingua Brutallica) examine how translocal participation in metal settings shapes how and why specific language forms are used to construct "metal language." Although much research has been done on language flows and use in global subcultures, their volume intervenes in two key ways.First, most prior work has focused on hip-hop, which unlike metal has an established "origin" dialect, namely AAVE (African American Vernacular English), linked to concepts of authenticity in the scene.Secondly, writing on global language flows has centered around what happens when a language, mainly English, enters a new space or context-not on how individuals employ imported forms and reimagine already extant linguistic resources