Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music - Couverture rigide

Walser, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819552526 ISBN 13 : 9780819552525

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 1993

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music attracts and embodies cultural conflicts that are central to our society. Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power. This edition includes a new foreword by Harris M. Berger contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819552526
• ISBN 13: 9780819552525
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible