Heavy metal, gender and sexuality : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Florian Heesch and Niall Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heesch, Florian, editor.

Scott, Niall, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music).

Gender identity in music.

Sex in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Heavy metal culture : a case of limited diversity in gender and sexuality? Playing with gender in the key of metal / Deena Weinstein ; "Coming out" : realising the possibilities of metal / Keith Kahn-Harris ; Metal, masculinity, and the queer subject / Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone

Solo metal masculinities. Living history : the guitar virtuoso and composer Steve Vai / Michael Custodis ; "Never say die!" : Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model / Dietmar Elflein ; Placing gender : Alice Cooper's Motor City move / Sarah Gerk

Extended critical metal masculinities. Wild side : self-styling and the aesthetics of metal in the music videos of Mötley Crüe / Mollie Ables ; "Body Count's in the house" : challenging the US working-class metal-hero / Thorsten Hindrichs

The monstrous male and myths of masculinity in heavy metal / Niall Scott

Interlude. Female metal singers : a panel discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Görtz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch / Sarah Chaker and Florian Heesch

Dialogues and intermediaries. What is "male" about black and death metal music? : an empirical approach / Sarah Chaker ; "Girls like metal, too!" : female reader's engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine / Andy R. Brown ; "This isn't over 'til I say it's over!" : narratives of male frustration in deathcore and beyond / Marcus Erbe

Relocating violence in thrash metal lyrics : the Tori Amos cover of Slayer's Raining blood / Luc Bellemare ; Liquid identity : love, heavy metal and the dynamics of gender in animé soundtracks / Maria Grajdian

Global and local perspectives. Heavy, death and doom metal in Brazil : a study on the creation and maintenance of stylistic boundaries within metal bands / Hugo Ribeiro ; Brutal masculinity in Osaka's extreme-metal scene / Rosemary Overell ; Race and gender in globalized and postmodern metal / Magnus Nilsson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 20, 2016).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Heavy metal, gender and sexuality

ISBN:

9781317122982

1317122984

Publisher Number:

99968809020

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.