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Heavy metal youth identities : researching the musical empowerment of youth transitions and psychosocial wellbeing /

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 abo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowe, Paula (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in metal music and culture.
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  • Intro; HEAVY METAL YOUTHIDENTITIES: RESEARCHINGTHE MUSICALEMPOWERMENT OFYOUTH TRANSITIONS ANDPSYCHOSOCIAL WELLBEING; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Accidental Metal Scholar; Positioning My Research Approach; 1.2 What We 'Know' about Metal Youth, and Ways that We 'Know' it; The Social Disapproval of Metal: History and Consequences; Previous Studies of Metal Youth; So, What Do We Know about the Transitions and Aspirations of Metal Youth?; The Research 'Problem', and What to Do about it ... ; 1.3 The Research; Framing the Study; 1.4 Research Design and Methods
  • Sample and RecruitingEthics; Data Collection; Field Observations, Field Notes and General Communication; Interviews; Data Management and Analysis; Part 1: Becoming Metal; Chapter 2: 'Metal is My Drug': The Comforts and Pleasures of Listening to Metal; 2.1 Power of Music, Power of Words; 2.2 Checking in with the Broken Self; 2.3 Galvanising the Dominant Self; Moral Superiority; Metal Work Ethic and Individualism; 2.4 Girls Hurt and Hate Too; 2.5 'Metal is My Drug'; If it Feels Good, Do it; Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 3: 'It's True, Metal Gives You Power when You're Powerless': Embodying Metal Identities for Social Protection3.1 Power Relations at School: Experience, Feeling and Action; Experience; Feeling; Action; 3.2 The Complex Structuring of 'Unchosen' School-Based Identities; Biographies of Exclusion: The Complex Structuring of 'Unchosen' School-Based Identities; 3.3 Public Injuries Require a Public Response; Why to go Public with a Metal Identity?; 3.4 Positive Outcomes of Embodying Metal Identities; Metal as a Strategy for Political Transformation at the Level of the Individual
  • Is it Personal or Political? What Have We Learned?Chapter 4: 'That Sense of Metal Community is Great': Narrative Constructions of Acceptance and Belonging; 4.1 What is Metal Community? And Why is it so Important?; Case Study
  • Joey; What did Others Have to Say?; 4.2 Achieving Metal Community Membership; Metal Community Membership: Establishing Proof of Eligibility; Metal Community Life: Bedroom Metallers; 4.3 Membership Rights: And Justice for All?; (Un)Defining Class; Summary Profile of Sample Grouped by SES; Lower SES; Middle SES; Higher SES
  • Constructing the 'Other': How They Talked about Metal Youth from Other Metal SubgenresPatterns of Access, Consumption and Participation; Constructing Authenticity and Choice; Concluding Remarks; PArt 2: Being Metal; Chapter 5: 'No Shit I wanna be a Rock Star, but for Real You Need a Plan B': Heavy Metal Dreams Reprised; 5.1 Are Heavy Metal Dreams such a Problem? It Depends Who you Ask ... ; 5.2 Metal-Related Travel; Case Study
  • Alex; Case Study
  • Stevo; What about the Others? Differences in Ability to Achieve Travel Plans; 5.3 Playing and Plan B; Case Study
  • David