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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walser, Robert.

Series:

Music Culture

Music culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music).

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Running with the Devil; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal; Genre and Commercial Mediation; Casting Heavy Metal; Heavy Metal in the 1980's II, Headbangers; ""Nasty, Brutish, and Short""? Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal; 2. 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

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; Photographs follow page; 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; Appendix I: Heavy Metal Canons; Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire; Notes; Select Discography; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"Wesleyan University Press."

Includes discography.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-8195-7421-X

OCLC:

857143462