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Author:   Florian Heesch (University of Siegen, Germany) ,  Niall Scott (University of Central Lancashire, UK) ,  Professor Stan Hawkins ,  Professor Lori Burns
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781472424792

ISBN 10:   1472424794
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   18 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures List of Tables List of Charts List of Music Examples Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Heavy Metal and Gender: An Introduction Florian Heesch and Niall Scott Part I Heavy Metal Culture – A Case of Limited Diversity in Gender and Sexuality? 1 Playing with Gender in the Key of Metal Deena Weinstein 2 ""Coming Out"": Realising the Possibilities of Metal Keith Kahn-Harris 3 Metal, Masculinity, and the Queer Subject Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone Part II Solo Metal Masculinities 4 Living History: The Guitar Virtuoso and Composer Steve Vai Michael Custodis 5 ""Never say die!"" Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model Dietmar Elflein 6 Placing Gender: Alice Cooper’s Motor City Move Sarah Gerk Part III Extended Critical Metal Masculinities 7 Wild Side: Self-Styling and the Aesthetics of Metal in the Music Videos of Mötley Crüe Mollie Ables 8 ""Body Count’s in the House"": Challenging the US Working-Class Metal-Hero Thorsten Hindrichs 9 The Monstrous Male and Myths of Masculinity in Heavy Metal Niall Scott Interlude 10 Female Metal Singers: A Panel Discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Görtz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch Sarah Chaker and Florian Heesch Part IV Dialogues and Intermediaries 11 What is ‘male’ about black and death metal music? An empirical approach Sarah Chaker 12 ""Girls like metal, too!"" Female reader’s engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine Andy R. Brown 13 ""This isn’t over ‘til I say it’s over!"" Narratives of Male Frustration in Deathcore and Beyond Marcus Erbe 14 Relocating Violence in Thrash Metal Lyrics: The Tori Amos Cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood Luc Bellemare 15 Liquid Identity: Love, Heavy Metal and the Dynamics of Gender in Anime Soundtracks Maria Grajdian Part V Global and Local Perspectives 16 Heavy, Death and Doom Metal in Brazil: A Study on the Creation and Maintenance of Stylistic Boundaries within Metal Bands Hugo Ribeiro 17 Brutal Masculinity in Osaka’s Extreme-metal Scene Rosemary Overell 18 Race and Gender in Globalized and Postmodern Metal Magnus Nilsson Index"

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Florian Heesch, musicologist, completed his doctoral thesis on operas and Swedish literature at the University of Gothenburg in 2006. He researched and lectured at several German universities, mainly in the fields of rock music, music and Norse mythology, popular music and queer theory. In 2013 he became professor of popular music and gender studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. Niall Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at UCLan in Preston. His primary research interest is in philosophy and heavy metal, and he is one of the founding members of the current metal studies movement. He also works in the fields of Cultural theory, Bioethics and Theology. Together with Rob Fisher and ID.net, he put together the first conference on Heavy metal in Salzburg in 2008, where he first met Florian Heesch. Niall is editor of Helvete, A Journal of Black Metal Theory and co-editor, with Prof Karl Spracklen of the journal Metal Music Studies (Intellect). He is currently the Chair of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), and has published widely and spoken internationally on heavy metal, politics, philosophy and cultural theory.

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