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Zusatztext 'Given that heavy metal has received less academic attention than other popular music forms! and that studies have often been biased towards heavy metal in the United States! the publication of Heavy Metal Music in Britain should be warmly welcomed. The essays in the collection focus largely on British heavy metal in the 1970s and 1980s! the period in which British heavy metal bands were crucial in defining the genre and spreading its popularity. The various contributions to the collection benefit from the different perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplines. They offer fascinating insights into heavy metal in Britain! situating the genre in its context and critically interrogating its complex aesthetics and politics.' Keith Kahn-Harris! Goldsmiths College! London! UK author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (2006) 'It's formulaic! it's hypermasculine! it's politically reactionary. Or is it? For too long cultural studies has bought into a few convenient myths about heavy metal! but ignored the music itself. This book energetically undermines those myths! and the results will inform and surprise anyone who thinks of heavy metal as a lost cause! and it will also please the fans who knew all along that metal and its subgenres were among the most rewarding cultural formations of the rock era.' Andrew Blake! University of East London! UK '... proper leather-patches-on-tweed-jackets brainy stuff to get your teeth right into... you'll find a dazzling insight into why bands do what they do... certainly interesting. Who said metal's full of idiots?' Kerrang! '... a welcome - and overdue - contribution.' International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) '... an important contribution to the literature... Cultural studies and English literature scholars! as well as mid- and larger-size colleges and universities! will want this volume in their libraries! as will teachers of rock and popular music at the upper-undergr Informationen zum Autor Dr Gerd Bayer teaches in the Department of English at the University of Erlangen, Germany Klappentext Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first century. In this book, individual contributors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. The wide range of approaches will provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of essays that explore British Heavy Metal from its beginning through The New Wave of British Heavy Metal up to the increasing internationalization and widespread acceptance in the late 1980s. This book offers a critical analysis of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs, Gerd Bayer; Part I Metal Commodities; Chapter 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal, Deena Weinstein; Chapter 2 Metal Goes ‘Pop’: The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream, Benjamin Earl; Chapter 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal 1 A version of this paper was delivered as a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota on 2 April 2007. My thanks go to both Susannah L. Smith and John Mowitt who facilitated this presentation and provided me with invaluable resources. My thanks also to Gerd Bayer for his sterling editorial support and to both Ruth Barraclough and my daughter Una for their love and bemused tolerance of my passion for grindcore., Liam Dee; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; Chapter 4 Demons, The Occult Devils and Witches: in Heavy Metal Music, Helen Farley; Chapter 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despai...
