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Title Global metal music and culture : current directions in metal studies / edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall W.R. Scott.
Publisher New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 4  Music F40 BRO  
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Description xv, 369 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781138822382 hardback
1138822388 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : global metal music and culture and metal studies / Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall W.R. Scott -- Reflections on metal studies / Deena Weinstein -- Iron and steel : forging heavy metal's song structures or the impact of black sabbath and judas priest on metal's musical language / Dietmar Elflein -- 'It's like a Mach piece, really' : critiquing the neo-classical aesthetic of 80s heavy metal music / Gareth Heritage -- The distortion paradox : analysing contemporary metal production / Mark Mynett -- Voracious souls : race and place in the formation of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene / Kevin Fellezs -- The unforgiven : a reception study of Metallica fans and 'sell-out' accusations / Eric Smialek -- Use your mind? : embodiments of protest, transgression and grotesque realism in British grindcore / Gabby Riches -- The numbers of the beast : surveying Iron Maiden's global tribe / Jean-Philippe Ury-Petesch -- The social characteristics of the contemporary metalhead : the Hellfest survey / Christophe Guibert and Ge⁺ѓro⁺єme Guibert -- Un(su)stained class? Figuring out the identity-politics of heavy metal's class demographics / Andy R. Brown -- Tunes from the land of the thousand lakes : early years of internationalization in Finnish heavy metal / Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Eero Sipila⁺ -- Death symbolism in metal jewellery : circuits of consumption from subculture to the high street / Claire Barratt -- 'Getting my soul back' : empowerment narratives and identities among women in extreme metal in North Carolina / Jamie E. Patterson -- Gender and power in the death metal scene : a social exchange perspective / Sonia Vasan -- Masculine pleasure? Women's encounters with hard rock and metal music / Rosemary Lucy Hill -- Retro rock and heavy history / Simon Poole -- Transforming detail into myth : indescribable experience and mystical discourse in drone metal / Owen Coggins -- The future of metal is bright and Hell Bent for genre destruction : a response to Keith Kahn-Harris / Tom O'Boyle and Niall Scott -- A reply to Scott and O'boyle / Keith Kahn-Harris.
Series Routledge studies in popular music ; 12.
Library Class Music F40
Subject Heavy metal (Music) -- History and criticism.
Music -- Social aspects.
Other Author Brown, Andy R., editor.
Spracklen, Karl, editor.
Scott, Niall, editor.
Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971- editor.

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