Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.

"One of the more potent and persuasive pieces of recent cultural critiques... Waksman, often quite brilliantly, fuses the fan and the critic into a rich voice for music criticism... Considerably raises the bar for engaged exploration of music subcultures." Baltimore City Paper "A wonderful mixture of fact, observation, interpretation, and humor." -- Scott G - The G-Man Music Industry Newswire "The author is to be commended for shedding welcome light on a seldom illuminated dialogue and recognising the ongoing variegation of rock 'n' roll as a process contingent on the external pressures brought to bear on it." The Wire "Waksman's superb book provides a model for other scholars to follow." Journal Of Popular Music Stds "Waksman's work is engaging, thought-provoking, and an important contribution particularly for metal studies." -- Glenn Pillsbury American Studies "This work is an exemplar nuance, one that does justice to the complexities of the culture it addresses." -- Robert Walser Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "A comprehensively and enthusiastically researched book." -- Alan Ashton-Smith Popmatters

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Metal/Punk Continuum 1 Staging the Seventies: Arena Rock, Punk Rock 2 Death Trip: Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Rock Theatricality 3 The Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Ideal: The Dictators and the Runaways 4 Metal, Punk, and Motorhead: The Genesis of Crossover 5 Time Warp: The New Wave of British Heavy Metal 6 Metal/Punk Reformation: Three Independent Labels 7 Louder, Faster, Slow It Down! Metal, Punk, and Musical Aesthetics Conclusion: Metal, Punk, and Mass Culture Notes Bibliography Discography Index

Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.

"One of the more potent and persuasive pieces of recent cultural critiques... Waksman, often quite brilliantly, fuses the fan and the critic into a rich voice for music criticism... Considerably raises the bar for engaged exploration of music subcultures." Baltimore City Paper "A wonderful mixture of fact, observation, interpretation, and humor." -- Scott G - The G-Man Music Industry Newswire "The author is to be commended for shedding welcome light on a seldom illuminated dialogue and recognising the ongoing variegation of rock 'n' roll as a process contingent on the external pressures brought to bear on it." The Wire "Waksman's superb book provides a model for other scholars to follow." Journal Of Popular Music Stds "Waksman's work is engaging, thought-provoking, and an important contribution particularly for metal studies." -- Glenn Pillsbury American Studies "This work is an exemplar nuance, one that does justice to the complexities of the culture it addresses." -- Robert Walser Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "A comprehensively and enthusiastically researched book." -- Alan Ashton-Smith Popmatters

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Metal/Punk Continuum 1 Staging the Seventies: Arena Rock, Punk Rock 2 Death Trip: Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Rock Theatricality 3 The Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Ideal: The Dictators and the Runaways 4 Metal, Punk, and Motorhead: The Genesis of Crossover 5 Time Warp: The New Wave of British Heavy Metal 6 Metal/Punk Reformation: Three Independent Labels 7 Louder, Faster, Slow It Down! Metal, Punk, and Musical Aesthetics Conclusion: Metal, Punk, and Mass Culture Notes Bibliography Discography Index

Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.

"One of the more potent and persuasive pieces of recent cultural critiques... Waksman, often quite brilliantly, fuses the fan and the critic into a rich voice for music criticism... Considerably raises the bar for engaged exploration of music subcultures." Baltimore City Paper "A wonderful mixture of fact, observation, interpretation, and humor." -- Scott G - The G-Man Music Industry Newswire "The author is to be commended for shedding welcome light on a seldom illuminated dialogue and recognising the ongoing variegation of rock 'n' roll as a process contingent on the external pressures brought to bear on it." The Wire "Waksman's superb book provides a model for other scholars to follow." Journal Of Popular Music Stds "Waksman's work is engaging, thought-provoking, and an important contribution particularly for metal studies." -- Glenn Pillsbury American Studies "This work is an exemplar nuance, one that does justice to the complexities of the culture it addresses." -- Robert Walser Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "A comprehensively and enthusiastically researched book." -- Alan Ashton-Smith Popmatters

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Metal/Punk Continuum 1 Staging the Seventies: Arena Rock, Punk Rock 2 Death Trip: Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Rock Theatricality 3 The Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Ideal: The Dictators and the Runaways 4 Metal, Punk, and Motorhead: The Genesis of Crossover 5 Time Warp: The New Wave of British Heavy Metal 6 Metal/Punk Reformation: Three Independent Labels 7 Louder, Faster, Slow It Down! Metal, Punk, and Musical Aesthetics Conclusion: Metal, Punk, and Mass Culture Notes Bibliography Discography Index