An edition of Running with the devil
(2014)
Running with the devil
power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music
by Robert Walser
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A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music. This 2014 edition includes a new foreword contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author.
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Running with the devil: power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music
2014, Wesleyan University Press
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Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
2014, Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australia, The
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Table of Contents
Metallurgies : genre, history, and the construction of heavy metal. Genre and commercial mediation ; Casting heavy metal ; Heavy metal in the 1980s ; Headbangers ; "Nasty, brutish, and short"? Rock critics and academics evaluate metal
Beyond the vocals : toward the analysis of popular musical discourses. Genre and discourse ; Musicological analysis ; Writing about music ; Metal as discourse ; "Runnin' with the devil" ; Negotiation and pleasure
Eruptions : heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity. Classical prestige and popular meanings ; Ritchie Blackmore and the classical roots of metal ; Edward Van Halen and the new virtuosity ; Randy Rhoads : metal gets serious ; Yngwie Malmsteen : metal augmented and diminished ; Popular music as cultural dialogue
Forging masculinity : heavy metal sounds and images of gender. Behind the screen : listening to gender ; No girls allowed : exscription in heavy metal ; The kiss of death : misogyny and the male victim ; Living on a prayer : romance ; Nothing but a good time? Androgyny as a political party ; "Real men don't wear makeup"
Can I play with madness? Mysticism, horror, and postmodern politics. Professing censorship : the PMRC and its academic allies attack ; Suicide solutions ; Mysticism and postmodernism in heavy metal ; Horror and history ; Guns n' Roses n' Marx n' Engels
Afterword to the 2014 edition
Appendix 1. Heavy metal canons
Appendix 2. Heavy metal questionnaire.
Edition Notes
Previous edition: 1993.
"Foreword to the 2014 edition": pages vii-xv.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222), discography (pages 213-215) and index.
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