The musical formation of Sanctifier band: a study of the learning in extreme metal context at natal-RN
Musical learning in outside school contexts. Musical learning of popular Musicians. Heavy Metal. Extreme Metal. Death Metal. Sanctifier.
Sanctifier is death metal band from Natal playing this subgenre of heavy metal that - with doom metal, thrash metal and black metal - belongs to a strand called "extreme metal". This research is based on two basic axes: heavy metal and the learning process. The first axis deal with the heavy metal culture (Walser, 1993; Weinstein, 2000), its insertion and maintenance in Brazil (Leao, 1997; Janotti Junior, 2004), and the Brazilian extreme metal culture (Campoy, 2010). In the second axis, musical formation is discussed through informal musical learning (Green, 2001, 2002, 2012), focusing on the self-learning in non-school contexts (Correa, 2008), considering rock and heavy metal bands as formative spaces (Campbell, 1995), as well as processes individual and collective musical learning in an extreme metal band (Carvalho, 2011). In addition, the term “musicking” underlies the vision of music as an activity, not as an object, since its nature and meaning reside in human action when playing, listening, training, rehearsing, composing, dancing, among others (Small, 1998). The research is set as a case study (Yin, 2015; Gil, 2009) that seeks to understand how the musical formations of Sanctifier’s members determine the musicking of the band. Finally, this work endeavored to understand how the learning processes of popular musicians occur within a specific culture belonging to heavy metal: death metal. The results allowed not only to know about Sanctifier itself, but also how musically operates the world of extreme metal in the city of Natal, as well as what are the non-sonorous results of these relations. These findings are expected to maybe influence new researches aimed at understanding musical learning in the extreme metal context, the discussions of Music Education on the possibilities of musical learning beyond school contexts, as well as strengthening existing discussions on these subjects.