Hard Rock / Heavy Metal dans les fanzines des années 80 : Rendre compte d’une expérience sensible et donner sens à l’objet musical

Abstract

This contribution aims to focus on Hard Rock / Heavy Metal music, based on a corpus of several fanzines from the Rhône-Alpes region, dating from 1986 to 1989. Fanzines are amateur publications, produced by fans for fans, to promote the purpose of their passion, opening it up to a community of like-minded enthusiasts. The objective is to define the boundaries of the ‘metal music’ object –
specifically structured through discourse modality – in this context of fanzine publications. The aim is to highlight a few of the strategies used in record reviews to linguistically construct the meaning – both musical, event-driven and cultural – of this heterogeneous reference for the then-young audience. Our approach is focused on trying to characterize what in the discourse pertains to a trans-semiotic translation of an object of meaning whose essence derives primarily from one’s listening experience.