Running with the Devil Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

Name: Running with the Devil Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
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ISBN: 9780819562609

ISBN-10: 0819562602

ISBN-13: 9780819562609

Edition: 2nd 1993

Authors: Robert Walser

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music attracts and embodies cultural conflicts that are central to our society. Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power.

Book details

List price: $22.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.93" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Metallurgies: Genre, history, and the Construction of Heavy Metal


Genre and Commercial Meditation


Casting Heavy Metal


Heavy Metal in the 80's


Headbangers


"Nasty, Brutish, and Short?" Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal



Beyond the Vocals: Toward the Analysis of Popular Musical Discourses


Genre and Discourse


Musicological Analysis


Writing about Music


Metal as Discourse


"Runnin' with the Devil"


Negotiation and Pleasure



Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity


Classical Prestiger 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



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"



Heavy Metal and Postmodern Politics


Professing Censorship: The PMRC and It's Academic Allies Attack


Suicide Solutions


Mysticism and Postmodernism in Heavy Metal


Horror and History


Guns N' Roses N' Marx N' Engles