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Record Nr.

UNINA9910506384703321

Autore

Hoad Catherine

Titolo

Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood : (Re)sounding Whiteness / / by Catherine Hoad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030676193

3030676196

9783030676186

3030676188

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 260 pages)

Collana

Leisure Studies in a Global Era, , 2946-3181

Disciplina

306.48426

Soggetti

Sociology

Leisure

Culture

Music

Race

Leisure Studies

Sociology of Culture

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1.Introduction -- 2. Sound of White Noise -- 3.Norwegian black and Viking metal scenes -- 4.Territories of Whiteness in Afrikaans metal -- 5. Normophilic Whiteness and Banal Nationalism in Australian extreme metal -- 6.(Re)sounding, (re)sealing: Translocal Terrains of Whiteness across Norway, South Africa and Australia -- 7.Conclusion: Beyond the Pale.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value which obscures the contributions of women and people of colour, and affirms



the exclusory understandings of 'belonging' which have featured in the metal scenes of Norway, South Africa, and Australia. Utilizing critical discourse analysis and critical textual analysis of musical texts, promotional material, and participant-based observation ethnographies, it explores how the texts, discourses, and practices produced and articulated by metal scene members and scholars alike have presented heavy metal as a white, masculine pastime, yet also considers the vital work done by scene members to confront expressions of exclusory misogyny and racism when they emerge in metal scenes. The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of metal music studies, leisure studies, sociology of culture and sociology of racism. Catherine Hoad is Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.