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Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music / Robert Walser ; with a new afterword ; foreword by Harris M. Berger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walser, Robert.
- Series:
- Music/culture.
- Music/Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heavy metal (Music)--History and criticism.
- Heavy metal (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword
- Contents:
- Cover; Running with the Devil; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the 2014 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal; Genre and Commercial Mediation ; Casting Heavy Metal; Heavy Metal in the 1980s ; 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; "Ruinin' 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; 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 ; Afterword to the 2014 Edition; Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons; Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire; Notes; Select Discography; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.
- Includes discography.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780819575159
- 0819575151
- OCLC:
- 894170798
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