Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture

• Utgivningsdatum: 2016-01-13
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 21 mm
• Vikt: 420 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Antal sidor: 214
• Upplaga: 16001
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781137456670

• Kulturvetenskap
• Populärmusik
• Sociologi
• Sociala grupper och identitet

Brenda Walter is Associate Professor of History at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, US. Her research examines the role of Aristotelian discourse, learned medicine, and scholastic theology in the construction of alterity and the continued influence of medieval otherness on the horror genre, black metal, and beyond. Gabby Riches is a PhD student at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research examines women's participation in moshpit practices within Leeds' extreme metal scene. She is on the editorial board for Metal Music Studies. Her doctoral research has been published in the International Journal of Community Music, IASPM@Journal and Journal for Cultural Research. Dave Snell is Research Coordinator at the Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author of Bogans: An Insider's Guide to Metal, Mullets, and Mayhem and features in the documentary series Bogans. His research interests include social identity theory, communities of practice, andeveryday life. Bryan Bardine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton, US. He was the Coordinator of the Metal and Cultural Impact Conference, has given multiple papers on teaching, writing and using metal music, and his most recent research examines Gothic Literary characteristics in Death Metal music lyrics.

"The book is a welcome addition to the metal studies canon. Although the chapters are of varying quality, all of them contribute to current and future discussions about the role of metal music and culture in the contemporary world." (Titus Hjelm, Journal of Popular Music Education, Vol. 1 (1), 2017)

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