RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music; with a new afterword
Häftad bok.
Nära nyskick. Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT, 2014, XXVIII (2) 230 (6) pp., pbk, VG/new condition; foreword by Harris M. Berger
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780819575142
- Titel
- Running with the devil [Elektronisk resurs] : power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music
- Författare
- Walser, Robert - Berger, Harris M.
- Förlag
- Middletown : Wesleyan University Press
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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