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Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World

Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeremy Wallach (Editor), Harris M. Berger (Editor), Paul D. Greene (Editor)Publish date:2011-12-27Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822347330ISBN-10:822347334UPC:9780822347330Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Popular Culture, Media StudiesBook Topic:Heavy MetalSize:9.26 x 6.14 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCHH84B62T
During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Metal Rules the Globe, ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada, China, Easter Island, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, and the United States, describing how the sounds of heavy metal and the meanings that metalheads attribute to them vary across cultures. The contributors explore the dynamics of masculinity, class, race, and ethnicity in metal scenes; the place of metal in the music industry; and the ways that disenfranchised youth use metal to negotiate modernity and social change. They reveal heavy metal fans as just as likely to criticize the consumerism, class divisiveness, and uneven development of globalization as they are to reject traditional cultural norms. Crucially, they never lose sight of the sense of community and sonic pleasure to be experienced in the distorted, pounding sounds of local metal scenes.

Contributors. Idelber Avelar, Albert Bell, Dan Bendrups, Harris M. Berger, Paul D. Greene, Ross Hagen, Sharon Hochhauser, Shuhei Hosokawa, Keith Kahn-Harris, Kei Kawano, Rajko Mursič, Steve Waksman, Jeremy Wallach, Robert Walser, Deena Weinstein, Cynthia P. Wong

Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822347330ISBN-10:822347334UPC:9780822347330Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Popular Culture, Media StudiesBook Topic:Heavy MetalSize:9.26 x 6.14 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCHH84B62T

Jeremy Wallach is Associate Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001.

Harris M. Berger is Professor of Music at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture and Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience.

Paul D. Greene is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Integrative Arts at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. He is a co-editor of Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures.


Publisher: Duke University Press

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