Heavy fundametalisms : music, metal and politics / edited by Rosemary Hill and Karl Spracklen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Rosemary Lucy, editor.

Spracklen, Karl, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--Social aspects.

Heavy metal (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2010]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2010.

Contents:

Intro

Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: Philosophy and Aesthetics

Metal Community and Aesthetics of Identity

Living for Music, Dying for Life: The Self- Destructive Lifestyle in the Heavy Metal Culture

The Common Vernacular of Power Relations in Heavy Metal and Christian Fundamentalist Performances

PART II: Nationalities and Warriors

Scandinavian Metal Attack: The Power of Northern Europe in Extreme Metal

White Power, Black Metal and Me: Reflections on Composing the Nation

Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums: Heavy Metal's Portrayal of War

Part III: Fans and Communities

'Den Mothers' and 'Band Whores': Gender, Sex and Power in the Death Metal Scene

'I'm a Metalhead': The Representation of Women Letter Writers in Kerrang! Magazine

Gorgoroth's Gaahl's Gay! Power, Gender and the Communicative Discourse of the Black Metal Scene

Communication Function in the Estonian Metal Subculture

Part IV: Technologies and Musicologies

Louder Than Hell: Power, Volume and the Brain

Dissonance and Dissidents: The Flattened Supertonic Within and Without of Heavy Metal Music

Intelligent Equalisation Principles and Techniques for Minimising Masking when Mixing the Extreme Modern Metal Genre.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84888-017-0

OCLC:

1151184632

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880177 DOI