Research Catalog

Title

Heavy metal, gender and sexuality : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Florian Heesch and Niall Scott.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Heesch, Florian
• Scott, Niall

Description

xx, 282 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Series Statement

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Uniform Title

Ashgate popular and folk music series.

Subject

• Heavy metal (Music) > History and criticism
• Gender identity in music
• Sex in music
• Heavy metal (Music)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Heavy metal culture : a case of limited diversity in gender and sexuality? Playing with gender in the key of metal / Deena Weinstein ; "Coming out" : realising the possibilities of metal / Keith Kahn-Harris ; Metal, masculinity, and the queer subject / Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone -- Solo metal masculinities. Living history : the guitar virtuoso and composer Steve Vai / Michael Custodis ; "Never say die!" : Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model / Dietmar Elflein ; Placing gender : Alice Cooper's Motor City move / Sarah Gerk -- Extended critical metal masculinities. Wild side : self-styling and the aesthetics of metal in the music videos of Mötley Crüe / Mollie Ables ; "Body Count's in the house" : challenging the US working-class metal-hero / Thorsten Hindrichs -- The monstrous male and myths of masculinity in heavy metal / Niall Scott -- Interlude. Female metal singers : a panel discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Görtz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch / Sarah Chaker and Florian Heesch -- Dialogues and intermediaries. What is "male" about black and death metal music? : an empirical approach / Sarah Chaker ; "Girls like metal, too!" : female reader's engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine / Andy R. Brown ; "This isn't over 'til I say it's over!" : narratives of male frustration in deathcore and beyond / Marcus Erbe -- Relocating violence in thrash metal lyrics : the Tori Amos cover of Slayer's Raining blood / Luc Bellemare ; Liquid identity : love, heavy metal and the dynamics of gender in animé soundtracks / Maria Grajdian -- Global and local perspectives. Heavy, death and doom metal in Brazil : a study on the creation and maintenance of stylistic boundaries within metal bands / Hugo Ribeiro ; Brutal masculinity in Osaka's extreme-metal scene / Rosemary Overell ; Race and gender in globalized and postmodern metal / Magnus Nilsson.

Call Number

JME 16-586

ISBN

• 9781472424792
• 1472424794

LCCN

2015045557

OCLC

930508816

Title

Heavy metal, gender and sexuality : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Florian Heesch and Niall Scott.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Ashgate popular and folk music series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heesch, Florian, editor.

Scott, Niall, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Heavy metal, gender and sexuality. Burlington, VT ; Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2016] 9781472424808 (DLC) 2015046919

Research Call Number

JME 16-586