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

Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both...

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Autor principal: Walser, Robert (Autor)
Otros Autores: Berger, Harris M., 1966- (writer of foreword,, writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Running with the Devil; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the 2014 Edition; 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 ofPopular Musical Discourses ; Genre and Discourse ; Musicological Analysis ; Writing about Music; Metal as Discourse; "Ruinin' with the Devil" ; Negotiationand Pleasure
  • 3. Eruptions: 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 ; 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 ; Afterword to the 2014 Edition; Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons; Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire; Notes; Select Discography; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Authors