Running with the Devil : power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music / Robert Walser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walser, Robert.

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music).

Physical Description:

xviii, 222 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press, [1993]

Summary:

A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music.

Contents:

I Metallurgies: Genre, history, and the Construction of Heavy Metal

Genre and Commercial Meditation

Casting Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal in the 80's

Headbangers

"Nasty, Brutish, and Short?" Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal

II 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

III Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity

Classical Prestiger 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

IV 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"

V Heavy Metal and Postmodern Politics

Professing Censorship: The PMRC and It's Academic Allies Attack

Suicide Solutions

Mysticism and Postmodernism in Heavy Metal

Horror and History

Guns N' Roses N' Marx N' Engles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

ISBN:

0819552526

0819562602

OCLC:

26974627