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Death metal and music criticism : analysis at the limits / Michelle Phillipov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillipov, Michelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death metal (Music)--History and criticism.
- Death metal (Music).
- Musical criticism--Political aspects.
- Musical criticism.
- Popular music--History and criticism--Political aspects.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Author Michelle Phillipov Combines original analyses of death metal with accessible overviews of popular music studies as a field. By doing so, Phillipov demonstrates how the premium placed on political engagement in popular music studies serves to circumscribe our understanding of the complexity and specificity of death metal.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The Limits of Music Criticism; Chapter One: The Rise of Political Criticism; Chapter Two: The Politics of Popular Music Studies; Chapter Three: The Search for the "New Punk"; Chapter Four: A "Promise Unfulfilled"; II: The Pleasures of Death Metal; Chapter Five: Death Metal and the Reorientation of Listening; Chapter Six: The Pleasures of Horror; Chapter Seven: "Becoming Death"; Chapter Eight: "Bodies Prepared for Slaughter"; Conclusion; Select Discography; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-6461-9
- 1-280-66642-0
- 9786613643353
- OCLC:
- 782923598
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