Running with the Devil [[electronic resource] ] : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

• Autore: Walser Robert
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, : Wesleyan University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc; Music; Music, Dance, Drama & Film
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Running with the Devil; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal; Genre and Commercial Mediation; Casting Heavy Metal; Heavy Metal in the 1980's II, Headbangers; ""Nasty, Brutish, and Short""? Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal; 2. 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 ; 3. 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; Photographs follow page; 4. 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""; 5. 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; Appendix I: Heavy Metal Canons; Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire; Notes; Select Discography; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music.
• Titolo autorizzato: Running with the Devil
• ISBN: 0-8195-7421-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465651103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Music Culture