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Running with the Devil [electronic resource]

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A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword

Title Running with the Devil [electronic resource] : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music / Robert Walser
with a new afterword
foreword by Harris M. Berger.
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press
Creation Date 2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.
Includes discography.
English
Content Cover
Running with the Devil
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword to the 2014 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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 Analysis
Writing about Music
Metal as Discourse
"Ruinin' with the Devil"
Negotiation and Pleasure
3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations 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
Afterword to the 2014 Edition
Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons
Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire
Notes
Select Discography
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Series Music/Culture
Extent 1 online resource (281 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010716507605171
MARC RECORDS
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