Full Description
Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music scholarship is predicated on the engagement with other forms of popular culture such as comics, documentaries, and popular music. Drawing from a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture's transnational approach and rootedness in metal scholarship provides the collection with a breadth and depth that makes it a critical resource for academics and students interested in the theories and trends shaping the future of Metal Music Studies.
Contents
Introduction: Metal Beyond Metal: The Future of Metal Studies; Keith Kahn-Harris
PART I: RESILIENCE
1. Heavy Metal as Resistance; Niall Scott
2. Sentimental Comedy and the Heavy Metal Documentary; Gerd Bayer
PART II: MEMORY
3. The Ballad of Heavy Metal: The Art of Song-Writing, Production Values and Pop-Metal Crossover; Andy R. Brown
4. Same as it Never Was: Machinations of Metal and Memory; Brad Klypchak
5. Metal at the Fringe: A Historical Perspective on Puerto Rico's Underground Metal Scene; Nelson Varas-Díaz
PART III: CRITIQUE
6. Blasting Britney on the Way to Goatwhore: Identity and Authenticity among Female-identified Fans in Semi-rural North Carolina; Jamie E. Patterson
7. Powerslaves? Navigating Femininity in Heavy Metal; Jenna Kummer
PART IV: METAL BEYOND METAL
8. Genre, Scene and Ritual in Cascadian Black Metal; Anthony Thibodeau
9. Metal and Comics: Strange Bedfellows?; Colin A. McKinnon
