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

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From the Publisher: A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walser, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Heavy metal.
Rockmuziek.
Heavy metal (Music)
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Rock.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Heavy Metal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Punk.
Heavy metal (Musique) > Histoire et critique.
Heavy metal (Music) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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 analysis
  • Writing about music
  • Metal as discourse
  • Runnin with the devil
  • Negotiation and pleasure
  • 3: Eruption: Heavy Metal Appropriations 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
  • 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
  • Select discography
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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