Stained Class

Exploring Class Consciousness in Heavy Metal Music

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This book explores the enigma of class in heavy metal, challenging existing accounts that have dismissed the genre for its classed cultural limitations. It engages with the key ways in which heavy metal is often seen as a profane expression of a-political and anti-religious feelings. While others have argued that heavy metal’s embrace of chaos, biblical doom, and the triumph of evil, this book is the first that examines the genre’s musical and lyrical expressions, arguing that the genre can be translated to express a language of class that is coded for the voice of the historically oppressed and marginalized.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501399121

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur
Kultur och medier inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Andy R. Brown is Senior Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. He is one of the original creators of the field of metal studies and a founding member of the International Society for Metal Music Studies. He has given three keynote talks and is the co-editor of Heavy Metal Generations (2012) and Global Metal Music and Culture (2016).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Where the Cows Drink Industrial Sewage: Classification and Class Disgust in the Critical Reception of Heavy Metal2. Nary a Plaque or a Tea Towel: Or How Wrong We Were About Black Sabbath3. Denim and Leather: The Proud Pariah as Folk Devil4. Born To Lose: The Paradox of the Politics of No Class5. Six-Ton Budgie: An Interpretative Analysis of Class in Music and Lyrics6. Between Heaven and Hell: The Politics and the Poetics of Biblical Allusion 7. Victim of Changes or Never Say Die? Charting Metal’s Global Class Profile