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Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music.

A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walser, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
Colección:Music/culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Running with the Devil; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal; Genre and Commercial Mediation; Casting Heavy Metal; Heavy Metal in the 1980s II, 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 Analysis; Writing about Music; Metal as Discourse; Runnin' with the Devil
  • Negotiation and Pleasure.
  • 3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical VirtuosityClassical 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; Photographs follow page; 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 PartyReal 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 I: Heavy Metal Canons; Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire; Notes; Select Discography; Select Bibliography; Index.