Home Institution
The College of Wooster
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Abstract
The notion of a middle class is a recent phenomenon in the Kathmandu valley. With it comes the new category of adolescence, a period between basic education and marriage that now exists within Kathmandu’s social landscape. This new social category is defined by a moral struggle between modern and “traditional” values. The purpose of this research is to investigate how social identity is realized for members of Kathmandu’s heavy metal scene, a distinctly middle class adolescent phenomenon. Through interviews, quantitative surveys and participant observation this research deals with how “metal heads” define themselves as a social group that both stands apart from and intersects the malleable notion of “Nepali” culture.
Disciplines
Civic and Community Engagement | Family, Life Course, and Society | Politics and Social Change
Recommended Citation
Smucker, Kyle, "Himalayan Metal of Death: Heavy Metal and Middle Class Social Identity in Kathmandu" (2012). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 1287.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/1287
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Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons
Program Name
Nepal: Development and Social Change