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Heavy Metal Youth Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Heavy Metal Youth Identities

Drawing on repeat interviews with metal youth, the book examines why they were first attracted to metal during high school; how they used metal music and identities as coping strategies; and ways that their metal affiliations took on further significance for helping them make important decisions about what to do with their lives post-school.

The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

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.

Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production

In metal, it seems that women are nowhere but gender is everywhere. This title offers a sociological analysis of metal music's historical and global gender imbalance to investigate why this genre is such an impenetrable fortress for female musicians and how it could change.

Defiant Sounds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

Defiant Sounds

Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.

Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

'Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation' is an interdisciplinary publication that presents new, experimental and original work on the relationships between heavy metal music culture, mental health and well-being.

Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 814

Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rock Music Icons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Rock Music Icons

The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authenticity, identity, and the power of the voices and images of widely circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of our lives.

Merchant Vessels of the United States...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1992

Merchant Vessels of the United States...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and musicians frequently identify as part of a collective group, larger than any particular individual. Still, when examined in detail, the idea raises more questions than answers. What criteria are used to define groups of people as part of the community? How are metal communities formed and maintai...

Global Metal Music and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Global Metal Music and Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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-aesthe...