Research Catalog

Title

Global metal music and culture : current directions in metal studies / edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall W.R. Scott.

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Andy R.
• Spracklen, Karl
• Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971-
• Scott, Niall

Description

xv, 369 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge studies in popular music ; 12

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in popular music ; .12.

Subjects

• Music > Social aspects
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Heavy metal (Music) > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Contents

Introduction : global metal music and culture and metal studies / Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall W.R. Scott -- Reflections on metal studies / Deena Weinstein -- Iron and steel : forging heavy metal's song structures or the impact of black sabbath and judas priest on metal's musical language / Dietmar Elflein -- 'It's like a Mach piece, really' : critiquing the neo-classical aesthetic of 80s heavy metal music / Gareth Heritage -- The distortion paradox : analysing contemporary metal production / Mark Mynett -- Voracious souls : race and place in the formation of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene / Kevin Fellezs -- The unforgiven : a reception study of Metallica fans and 'sell-out' accusations / Eric Smialek -- Use your mind? : embodiments of protest, transgression and grotesque realism in British grindcore / Gabby Riches -- The numbers of the beast : surveying Iron Maiden's global tribe / Jean-Philippe Ury-Petesch -- The social characteristics of the contemporary metalhead : the Hellfest survey / Christophe Guibert and Gérôme Guibert -- Un(su)stained class? Figuring out the identity-politics of heavy metal's class demographics / Andy R. Brown -- Tunes from the land of the thousand lakes : early years of internationalization in Finnish heavy metal / Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Eero Sipilä -- Death symbolism in metal jewellery : circuits of consumption from subculture to the high street / Claire Barratt -- 'Getting my soul back' : empowerment narratives and identities among women in extreme metal in North Carolina / Jamie E. Patterson -- Gender and power in the death metal scene : a social exchange perspective / Sonia Vasan -- Masculine pleasure? Women's encounters with hard rock and metal music / Rosemary Lucy Hill -- Retro rock and heavy history / Simon Poole -- Transforming detail into myth : indescribable experience and mystical discourse in drone metal / Owen Coggins -- The future of metal is bright and Hell Bent for genre destruction : a response to Keith Kahn-Harris / Tom O'Boyle and Niall Scott -- A reply to Scott and O'boyle / Keith Kahn-Harris.

Call Number

JME 16-421

ISBN

• 9781138822382
• 1138822388

LCCN

2015041377

OCLC

927241607

Title

Global metal music and culture : current directions in metal studies / edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall W.R. Scott.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in popular music ; 12

Routledge studies in popular music ; .12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Added Author

Brown, Andy R., editor.

Spracklen, Karl, editor.

Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971- editor.

Scott, Niall, editor.

Research Call Number

JME 16-421