Winter writing plans

Winter seems like a more fitting time than ever to write a Thesis on Heavy Metal!
Over the break I am going to do my best to get my hands on all the books I was unable to find during the semester. I'm going to write out some questions and interview a few friends in Buffalo and in Chicago that I need to get a hold of.
I will be keeping in touch with my secondary adviser to help fix up my literary review and start to form a more well functioning and cohesive outline to get everything up and running. I still have some momentum in me after moving to keep working on my thesis! After about a weeks worth of comatose sleep I'm excited to get back to working on my thesis. Thank you everyone who has helped me and given me great feedback on this all semester. <3

The Black Satans, a parody Black Metal band from Finland

Thesis so far.

This has certainly been a wild ride. I've often been finding myself getting extremely caught up into the inner workings of an early thriving and functioning underground metal scene and breaking down the culture and processes of the genre and how it has evolved that I often forget to explain the simplest of things like differences between sub genres or names of bands. It is a whirlwind of information on a topic that has largely existed through means of oral history and word of mouth. Still it has been a lot of fun to research for sure. I've been an active part of the metal scene since I was a teenager and I'm still learning new things.
I am hoping to add to a subject with little to no prior scholarship. As states previously the genre has largely functioned and thrived on word of mouth and oral tradition so not much has been written down. For a genre that has existed since roughly 1965-1967 it's surprising that not much has been written down, or at least to me it is. I am hoping that this thesis can actually evolve into an actual museum down the line, but until then I still have a lot of work to do!

What I've learned so far

Heavy Metal culture is a lot more expansive than I expected previously. The subculture of Heavy Metal has grown exponentially since its incarnation in the late 1960's. The name "Heavy Metal" and the distinct sound of the music has its origins in the steel and metal working industries in Britain. The development of the scene and the community has also been a rocky and long winded journey in and of itself. There are distinct differences in the European and American metal communities and how they hold festivals and their presentation of Heavy Metal in everyday culture.
What I still need to know is more inner workings in how festivals are held and how that affects the communities and towns around them. I am also looking into correlations on the environments of the cities and towns Heavy Metal originated in. Also putting more research into current scholarship and exhibitions done on the genre and its history.
The research has been a lot of fun to do and I'm having a great time discovering more about the community and music I love so much.

Fig 1. Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne, two of the original members of the bands Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. Link to photo origin

Articles on the Lenape

The two articles I read were in regards to the Lenni Lenape and the Nanticoke natives. The first article titled "Strategies for Survival: The Nanticoke Indians in a Hostile World" which was published in 1979. The second article was published in 2017 from a Widener law student titled "Utilizing Dignity Rights to Further Tribal Prerogatives: The Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware." Reading these two articles juxtapositioned against one another gave a more concrete passage of time in the struggles both the Lenni Lenape and the Nanticoke face and are still facing.

Considering one article is more styled as a law document and the other being more of a historical document, the styles of writing were extremely different. That being said they're both equally important to one another to paint a more clear and concise picture to the reader about the tribes. Also the considerable amount of time between both of the articled being written puts a lot about the Tribes into perspective regarding their welfare, history, and future.

Bibliography:
1.  Delaware Chief addressing his people, an 18th century painting courtesy of: http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-88C

2. Porter, Frank W. “Strategies for Survival: The Nanticoke Indians in a Hostile World.” Ethnohistory 26, no. 4 (1979): 325–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/481364.

3. Roland, Dean. “Utilizing Dignity Rights to Further Tribal Prerogatives: The Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware,” n.d., 26.

Thesis Idea and Case Study

Hello! I'm Kaye Knoll and my thesis is focused on a case study on Ganondagan: how they came to be what they are today, and how that can be applied to be used for the Delaware Native Americans. I will be looking into the history, policies, and process that made Ganondagan what it is today. The presence of Native American tribes in Delaware are practically non existent and there is not much information or resources about them in the state. Also I am not positive it is mandatory in the Delaware state curriculum to teach about them, thus why I was not personally exposed to the information and am frustrated that I wasn't. I want to help preserve these tribes history, languages, and cultures and to be able to make the information more widely available and accessible to Delawareans across the state.

http://www.nanticoke-lenape.info/
http://ganondagan.org/

Museum Studies and Hulabaloo

I've loved museums since I was a young kid. Coming from the Philadelphia area I grew up being dragged around center city from the Liberty Bell to the Philadelphia Art Museum. Colonial history and living history museums never interested me as a kid, I grew to love them as an adult. However I always loved my trips to Art museums and Natural History museums. Those were always my favorite trips growing up. My grandmother and I would always take one annual trip to New York when I was growing up and we would always visit at least one museum. So I was fairly accustomed to the idea of museums from a young age and the importance of them. Now as an adult (student) I moved 2,000 miles away to pursue a degree pathway to working in and around museums and museum environments. I'd say that move was worth it. Now on my birthday every year I visit a different museum, So far that has been going well!
As for living history interests, well that ended up becoming a hobby. While in Texas I joined the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) and took up archery and fencing. After two wrist surgeries I stopped fencing but I still to archery! Back to my point, the group that I did archery with used to do demonstrations and workshops on medieval society and would teach families archery at them. I got to participate in a couple and they are very fun! Attached is not a photo from the event, but from practice. :)