Australian Metal Music

This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question what it means to be Australian in the context of metal.

About the author

Dr Catherine Hoad is Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies in the School of Music and Creative Media Production, Massey University Wellington, New Zealand.

Summary

This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question what it means to be Australian in the context of metal.

Product details

• Assisted by: Keith Kahn-Harris (Editor), Catherine (Massey University Wellington Hoad (Editor), Catherine Hoad (Editor), Rosemary Lucy Hill (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.06.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781787691681
• ISBN: 978-1-78769-168-1
• Pages: 176
• Dimensions (packing): 15.7 x 23.5 x 1.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 415 g
• Series: Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture; Emerald Studies in Metal Music; Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture; Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture Book Set (2018-2019)