This 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 scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed, also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors, this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as those interested in metal communities around the world.
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"Although Kahn-Harris warns of a decline in metals vitality, the reader should rest assured that metal studies, at least, is alive and well. Global Metal Music and Culture aptly registers this state of affairs and for that reason alone merits a read."
- Jordan Musser, Cornell University in Metal Music Studies, Volume 3 Number 1, 2017
1. Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies Andy
R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Niall W.R. Scott
2.
Reflections on Metal Studies Deena Weinstein Part 1: Metal Musicology
3. Iron
and Steel: Forging Heavy Metals Song Structures or the Impact of Black
Sabbath and Judas Priest on Metals Musical Language Dietmar Elflein 4.Its
like a Mach piece, really: Critiquing the Neo-classical Aesthetic of 80s
Heavy Metal Music Gareth Heritage
5. The Distortion Paradox: Analysing
Contemporary Metal Production Mark Mynett Part 2: Metal Music Scenes
6.
Voracious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation of the San Francisco Bay
Area Thrash Scene Kevin Fellezs
7. The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of
Metallica Fans and Sell-Out Accusations Eric Smialek
8. Use Your Mind?:
Embodiments of Protest, Transgression, and Grotesque Realism in British
Grindcore Gabby Riches Part 3: Metal Demographics and Identity
9. The Numbers
of the Beast: Surveying Iron Maidens Global Tribe Jean-Philippe Ury-Petesch
10. The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead: The Hellfest
Survey Christophe Guibert and Gérōme Guibert 11.Un(su)Stained Class? Figuring
Out the Identity-Politics of Heavy Metals Class Demographics Andy R. Brown
Part 4: Metal Markets and Commerce
12. Tunes from the Land of the Thousand
Lakes: Early Years of Internationalization in Finnish Heavy Metal Toni-Matti
Karjalainen and Eero Sipilä
13. Death Symbolism in Metal Jewellery: Circuits
of Consumption from Subculture to the High Street Claire Barratt Part 5:
Metal and Gender Politics
14. Getting My Soul Back: Empowerment Narratives
and Identities among Women in Extreme Metal in North Carolina Jamie E.
Patterson
15. Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange
Perspective Sonia Vasan
16. Masculine Pleasure? Womens Encounters with Hard
Rock and Metal Music Rosemary Lucy Hill Part 6: Metal and Cultural Studies
17. Retro Rock and Heavy History Simon Poole
18. Transforming Detail into
Myth: Indescribable Experience and Mystical Discourse in Drone Metal Owen
Coggins Part 7: Metal Futures
19. The Future of Metal is Bright and Hell Bent
for Genre Destruction: A Response to Keith Kahn-Harris Tom OBoyle and Niall
Scott
20. A Reply to Scott and OBoyle Keith Kahn-Harris
Andy R. Brown is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications at Bath Spa University, UK.
Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University , UK.
Keith Kahn-Harris is honorary research fellow and associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, UK.
Niall W. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
