Running with the Devil : power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music / Robert Walser
- Bib ID:
- 1689939
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Walser, Robert
- Description:
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- Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1993
- xviii, 222 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0819562602
- 0819552526 (cl)
- Series:
- Music culture.
- Full contents:
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- 1. 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
- 2. Beyond the Vocals: Toward the Analysis of Popular Musical Discourses. Genre and Discourse. Musicological Anaalysis. Writing about Music. Metal as Discourse. "Runnin' with the Devil" Negotiation and Pleasure
- 3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropiations 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
- 4. 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"
- 5. 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
- Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons
- Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire.
- Notes:
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- "Wesleyan University Press."
- Includes discography.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.
- Subject:
- Heavy metal (Music) -- History and criticism
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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