While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fa…
"This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and scholar alike with a deepe…
"This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and scholar alike with a deepe…
"At the end of the Cold War, America's power became unmatched, its overwhelming military might and economic dominance defining the threshold of cultural existence. This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly eng…
"At the end of the Cold War, America's power became unmatched, its overwhelming military might and economic dominance defining the threshold of cultural existence. This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly eng…
Explores the music of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and many others from a mythological and literary perspective
"Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre's themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional. The author explores the music of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas P…
