Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first century. In this book, individual contributors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. The wide range of approaches will provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture.
Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first century. In this book, individual contributors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. The wide range of approaches will provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr Gerd Bayer teaches in the Department of English at the University of Erlangen, Germany
Inhaltsangabe
Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs, Gerd Bayer; Part I Metal Commodities; Chapter 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal, Deena Weinstein; Chapter 2 Metal Goes 'Pop': The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream, Benjamin Earl; Chapter 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal 1 A version of this paper was delivered as a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota on 2 April 2007. My thanks go to both Susannah L. Smith and John Mowitt who facilitated this presentation and provided me with invaluable resources. My thanks also to Gerd Bayer for his sterling editorial support and to both Ruth Barraclough and my daughter Una for their love and bemused tolerance of my passion for grindcore., Liam Dee; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; Chapter 4 Demons, The Occult Devils and Witches: in Heavy Metal Music, Helen Farley; Chapter 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction: Social Critique in British Apocalyptic and Dystopian Metal, Laura Wiebe Taylor; Chapter 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal 1 I would like to thank Simon Swift, Clare Sargent, Simon Hall, Dave Ling, Chris Martin and my wife Sam for all their help in getting this chapter written., Iain Campbell; Chapter 7 Elements of the Gothic in Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell, Bryan A. Bardine; Part III Heavy Metal Societies; Chapter 8 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification and the Origins of Heavy Metal, Ryan M. Moore; Chapter 9 No Class? Class and Class Politics in British Heavy Metal, Magnus Nilsson; Chapter 10 Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag?, Gerd Bayer;
Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs, Gerd Bayer; Part I Metal Commodities; Chapter 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal, Deena Weinstein; Chapter 2 Metal Goes 'Pop': The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream, Benjamin Earl; Chapter 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal 1 A version of this paper was delivered as a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota on 2 April 2007. My thanks go to both Susannah L. Smith and John Mowitt who facilitated this presentation and provided me with invaluable resources. My thanks also to Gerd Bayer for his sterling editorial support and to both Ruth Barraclough and my daughter Una for their love and bemused tolerance of my passion for grindcore., Liam Dee; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; Chapter 4 Demons, The Occult Devils and Witches: in Heavy Metal Music, Helen Farley; Chapter 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction: Social Critique in British Apocalyptic and Dystopian Metal, Laura Wiebe Taylor; Chapter 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal 1 I would like to thank Simon Swift, Clare Sargent, Simon Hall, Dave Ling, Chris Martin and my wife Sam for all their help in getting this chapter written., Iain Campbell; Chapter 7 Elements of the Gothic in Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell, Bryan A. Bardine; Part III Heavy Metal Societies; Chapter 8 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification and the Origins of Heavy Metal, Ryan M. Moore; Chapter 9 No Class? Class and Class Politics in British Heavy Metal, Magnus Nilsson; Chapter 10 Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag?, Gerd Bayer;
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