{"product_id":"global-metal-music-and-culture-9781138062597","title":"Global Metal Music and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, global\/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although Kahn-Harris warns of a decline in metal’s vitality, the reader should rest assured that metal studies, at least, is alive and well. \u003cem\u003eGlobal Metal Music and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e aptly registers this state of affairs and for that reason alone merits a read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Jordan Musser, Cornell University in Metal Music Studies, Volume 3 Number 1, 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies \u003ci\u003eAndy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Niall W.R. Scott\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Reflections on Metal Studies \u003ci\u003eDeena Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Metal Musicology\u003c\/b\u003e 3. Iron and Steel: Forging Heavy Metal’s Song Structures or the Impact of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest on Metal’s Musical Language \u003ci\u003eDietmar Elflein \u003c\/i\u003e4.‘It’s like a Mach piece, really’: Critiquing the Neo-classical Aesthetic of 80s Heavy Metal Music \u003ci\u003eGareth Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e 5. The Distortion Paradox: Analysing Contemporary Metal Production \u003ci\u003eMark Mynett \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Metal Music Scenes \u003c\/b\u003e6. Voracious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation of the San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Scene \u003ci\u003eKevin Fellezs \u003c\/i\u003e7. The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of Metallica Fans and ‘Sell-Out’ Accusations \u003ci\u003eEric Smialek \u003c\/i\u003e8. Use Your Mind?: Embodiments of Protest, Transgression, and Grotesque Realism in British Grindcore \u003ci\u003eGabby Riches \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Metal Demographics and Identity\u003c\/b\u003e 9. The Numbers of the Beast: Surveying Iron Maiden’s Global Tribe \u003ci\u003eJean-Philippe Ury-Petesch \u003c\/i\u003e10. The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead: The Hellfest Survey\u003ci\u003e Christophe Guibert and Gérôme Guibert \u003c\/i\u003e11.Un(su)Stained Class? Figuring Out the Identity-Politics of Heavy Metal’s Class Demographics \u003ci\u003eAndy R. Brown \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Metal Markets and Commerce \u003c\/b\u003e12. Tunes from the Land of the Thousand Lakes: Early Years of Internationalization in Finnish Heavy Metal \u003ci\u003eToni-Matti Karjalainen and Eero Sipilä \u003c\/i\u003e13. Death Symbolism in Metal Jewellery: Circuits of Consumption from Subculture to the High Street \u003ci\u003eClaire Barratt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5: Metal and Gender Politics \u003c\/b\u003e14. ‘Getting My Soul Back’: Empowerment Narratives and Identities among Women in Extreme Metal in North Carolina \u003ci\u003eJamie E. Patterson \u003c\/i\u003e15. Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange Perspective \u003ci\u003eSonia Vasan \u003c\/i\u003e16. Masculine Pleasure? Women’s Encounters with Hard Rock and Metal Music \u003ci\u003eRosemary Lucy Hill \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6: Metal and Cultural Studies \u003c\/b\u003e17. Retro Rock and Heavy History \u003ci\u003eSimon Poole \u003c\/i\u003e18. Transforming Detail into Myth: Indescribable Experience and Mystical Discourse in Drone Metal \u003ci\u003eOwen Coggins \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 7: Metal Futures \u003c\/b\u003e19. The Future of Metal is Bright and Hell Bent for Genre Destruction: A Response to Keith Kahn-Harris \u003ci\u003eTom O’Boyle and Niall Scott \u003c\/i\u003e20. A Reply to Scott and O’Boyle \u003ci\u003eKeith Kahn-Harris\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885286699351,"sku":"9781138062597","price":45.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-metal-music-and-culture-9781138062597","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}