Heavy metal music in Britain

• Other Authors: Bayer, Gerd, 1971-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Surrey, UK : Ashgate, c2009.
• Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series.
• Subjects: Heavy metal (Music) > History and criticism. > Great Britain; Heavy metal (Music) > Social aspects > Great Britain.; Heavy metal (Music); MUSIC > Punk. > Genres & Styles; MUSIC > Heavy Metal. > Genres & Styles; MUSIC > Rock. > Genres & Styles; Electronic books.
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Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first century. In this book, individual contributors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics an...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs; Part I Metal Commodities; 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal; 2 Metal Goes 'Pop': The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream; 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; 4 Demons, Devils and Witches: The Occult in Heavy Metal Music; 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction; 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal.