Running with the Devil power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music
A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword.
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press
[2014]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Music/Culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44987614*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Metallurgies : genre, history, and the construction of heavy metal. Genre and commercial mediation ; Casting heavy metal ; Heavy metal in the 1980s ; Headbangers ; "Nasty, brutish, and short"? Rock critics and academics evaluate metal
- Beyond the vocals : toward the analysis of popular musical discourses. Genre and discourse ; Musicological analysis ; Writing about music ; Metal as discourse ; "Runnin' with the devil" ; Negotiation and pleasure
- Eruptions : heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity. Classical prestige and popular meanings ; Ritchie Blackmore and the classical roots of metal ; Edward Van Halen and the new virtuosity ; Randy Rhoads : metal gets serious ; Yngwie Malmsteen : metal augmented and diminished ; Popular music as cultural dialogue
- Forging masculinity : heavy metal sounds and images of gender. Behind the screen : listening to gender ; No girls allowed : exscription in heavy metal ; The kiss of death : misogyny and the male victim ; Living on a prayer : romance ; Nothing but a good time? Androgyny as a political party ; "Real men don't wear makeup"
- Can I play with madness? Mysticism, horror, and postmodern politics. Professing censorship : the PMRC and its academic allies attack ; Suicide solutions ; Mysticism and postmodernism in heavy metal ; Horror and history ; Guns n' Roses n' Marx n' Engels
- Afterword to the 2014 edition
- Appendix 1. Heavy metal canons
- Appendix 2. Heavy metal questionnaire.
