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

By: Walser, RobertMaterial type: TextTextReference number:ocm26974627Series: Music culturePublication details: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1993. Description: xviii, 222 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0819552526 (cl); 0819562602Subject(s): Heavy metal (Music) -- History and criticismDDC classification: 781.66 LOC classification: ML3534 | .W29 1993
Contents:
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 Anaalysis. Writing about Music. Metal as Discourse. "Runnin' with the Devil" Negotiation and Pleasure -- 3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropiations 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. Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons -- Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire.
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Includes discography.

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

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 Anaalysis. Writing about Music. Metal as Discourse. "Runnin' with the Devil" Negotiation and Pleasure -- 3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropiations 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. Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons -- Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire.

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