Overview

Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power. The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House has shown that angry white men still wield huge social and cultural power in this new century. The aim of this monograph is to explore metal music - might be seen as leisure spaces that resist the norms and values of the mainstream; but also how they might also serve to re-affirm and construct those norms and values. In particular, this book is interested in how forms of metal might work to re-imagine masculinity, race, nation and class in an intersectional way through the myth of warrior masculinity and blood and soil. This monograph explores the history of the myths, and the reaction by fans to the music. The focus is extended to bands that use the warrior-nation myth in places and countries beyond the global North, and in ways that challenge or subvert hegemony.

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Author:   Karl Spracklen (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9781838674441

ISBN 10:   1838674446
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction, Context and Methods Chapter Two: The Old Nationalism and Masculinity: Historical Review  Chapter Three: Populism, Nationalism and Masculinity Today: A Review  Chapter Four: Theories of Leisure and Music; and Music, Identity and Place  Chapter Five: Iron Maiden: True Stories of Men at War  Chapter Six: Manowar: True Metal Warriors  Chapter Seven: Bathory and Viking Metal  Chapter Eight: The Norwegians as 'Authentic' Vikings: Enslaved, Windir and Wardruna  Chapter Nine: Pagan Metal in Eastern Europe  Chapter Ten: Finnish Folk Metal: Raising Drinking Horns in Mainstream Metal  Chapter Eleven: English Heritage Black Metal and the Equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire  Chapter Twelve: Challenging Hegemony? Darkestrah, and Zeal & Ardor  Chapter Thirteen: Conclusions  References  Discography

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Karl Spracklen is a Professor of Sociology of Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University (UK). Until the end of 2019 he was the Principal Editor of the journal Metal Music Studies. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. He is interested in leisure and identity and belonging and exclusion, and has published over a hundred papers, books, textbooks and book chapters in that broad area from sport to whisky tourism.

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