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Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music
This book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres from outside western Europe and North America that are often ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.
Norse Revival
Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganism’s genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic research of contemporary groups in Germany, Scandinavia and North America, the book examines this alternative Neopagan religion’s transformations towards respectability and mainstream thought after the 1970s. It asks which regressive and progressive elements of a National Romantic discourse on Norse myth have shaped Germanic Neopaganism. It demonstrates how these ambiguous ideas about Nordic myth permeate general discourses on race, religion, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics. Ultimately, Norse Revival raises the question whether Norse mythology can be freed from its reactionary ideological baggage.
The Heroic in Music
Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this volume reconstructs the various musical strategies that composers of medieval chant, Renaissance madrigals, and Baroque operas, cantatas or oratorios employed when referring to heroic ideas exemplifying their personal moral and political values. A second part investigating the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries expands the previous narrow focus on Beethoven's heroic middle period and the cult of the virtuoso. It demonstrates the wide spectrum of heroic positions - national, ethnic, revolutionary, bourgeois and spiritual - that filte...
The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
Since its beginnings over fifty years ago, metal music has grown in popularity worldwide, not only as a musical culture but as a recognised field of study. This Companion, grounded in recent research, explores the various musical styles and cultures of metal, providing a reliable resource for students and researchers.
Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture
This book highlights tensions and negotiating processes between modern society and conservative religious groups. Conservative religion and society have co-existed for at least a century in an increasingly pluralist society. Still, the right to religious freedom and tolerance clashes with certain expressions of religious exclusivity. In this book, scholars from different disciplines look at the various ways in which representatives of conservative religious faith live, practice, and formulate their religion in relation to a contemporary mainstream culture. The studies included represent various settings with regard to time, religion and geography, and are presented in three thematic groups: culture, schooling and public life, and media. Taken together, the studies contribute to a more nuanced and diverse picture of conservative religious believers and their engagement with mainstream society. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology of religion, church history and contemporary religion.
Oper raus!
Gesellschaftliche Widersprüche treiben die Oper aus der Komfortzone. Ihr stehen massive strukturelle Transformationen und ästhetische Neuformatierungen ins Haus – und bisherige Gewissheiten über Werk, Raum und Repräsentation werden grundlegend auf den Prüfstand gestellt. Das vorliegende Buch spürt diesem Spannungsfeld von Struktur und Ästhetik nach, porträtiert künstlerische Positionen und zugespitzte Diskurslagen und zeigt, wie die Oper den Verhältnissen ihre eigene Melodie vorsingt: auch am Beispiel des Staatstheaters Kassel zwischen Raumbühne, Theater des Erlebnisses und spartenübergreifendem Labor des zeitgenössischen Musiktheaters. Mit künstlerischen Positionen von Paul-Georg Dittrich, Sebastian Hannak, Florentine Klepper, Lulu Obermayer, Kerstin Steeb und Beiträgen von Dietmar Dath, Ulrike Hartung, Marie-Anne Kohl, Felix Linsmeier, Teresa Martin, Kornelius Paede, Willem Strank, Tillmann Triest sowie Gesprächen mit Melanie Fritsch, Florian Lutz und Wolfgang M. Schmitt.
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities in an area of music that is sometimes mistakenly treated as exclusively sustaining a masculinist hegemony. The book combines a broad variety of perspectives on the main topic, regarding gender in connection to: the history of the genre; the range of metal subgenres; heavy metal's multidimensional scope (music, lyrics, performance, style, illustrations); men and women; sexualities and various local and global perspectives. Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality is a text that opens up the world of heavy metal to reveal that it is a very diverse and ground-breaking stage where gender play is at the centre of its theatricality and sustains its mass appeal.
Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music
This book originates from the 2017 edition of the multidisciplinary Modern Heavy Metal Conference, organised in Helsinki, Finland. This collection of seven scholarly essays explores local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore. The essays here lay various theoretical perspectives and incorporate vivid examples with metal bands and scenes from all over the world. By exploring themes and discourses that are central to both research and practice, this book appeals to a versatile global readership. It serves the wide academic communities of metal music and popular music studies as well as of many other streams within cultural and social studies. This book also provides the large and active global community of heavy metal fans with a highly interesting package of genre information and country perspectives.
Gender Performances
Mdw Gender Wissen ist eine Buchreihe der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien/mdw. Die Publikationen dieser Reihe möchten dazu beitragen, die Wirkmächtigkeit von Gender (soziales Geschlecht) in Wissens- und Kunstproduktionen an der mdw sichbar zu machen. Ein zentrales Anliegen ist es, Kunst, Wissenschaft und Geschlecht/Gender zusammen zu denken. Band 2 der Reihe mdw Gender Wissen thematisiert und reflektiert Gender Performances in Musik, Theater und Film. Die Gendertheorie geht heute von einer performativen Konstitutierung von Gender aus, d.h. die wiederholende Praxis konstituiere erst das Geschlecht/Gender, die jeweilige Geschlechterzugehörigkeit. Demgemäß betont das Motto der Reihe mdw Gender Wissen Potenziale und Möglichkeiten: Alles, was einmal geworden ist, kann sich im Interesse einer Geschlechterdemokratie auch wieder (ver)ändern.
„Sounds like a real man to me“ – Populäre Kultur, Musik und Männlichkeit
In populärer Kultur ist Männlichkeit ein vielschichtiges Thema – hörbar und sichtbar in Sounds, Performances, Medien, Moden, Biographien, Szenen und (Selbst-)Inszenierungen. Was ist Männlichkeit? Zu dieser nicht (mehr) eindeutig zu beantwortenden Frage liefern populäre Musiken, Medien und Szenen diverse Aussagen und Darstellungen, mal eher traditionell, mal eher transgressiv, wobei sich durch Hautfarbe, sexuelle Orientierung, Herkunft oder Behinderung jeweils Bedeutungsverschiebungen ergeben. Anhand vielfältiger populärkultureller Phänomene bietet der Sammelband facettenreiche Einblicke in die aktuelle Männlichkeitsforschung der Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften.
