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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Additional Authors

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

Description

xv, 369 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed, also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors, this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as those interested in metal communities around the world.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in popular music

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in popular music 12.

Subject

• Heavy metal (Music) > History and criticism
• Music > Social aspects
• Heavy metal (Music)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 99781138822382
• 9781138822382
• 1138822388
• 9781315742816 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015041377

OCLC

• 927241607
• SCSB-10295549

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library