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Global Metal Music and Culture
List of Figures and Tables (xi) | Acknowledgments (xvii) | 1 Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies (1) | 2 Reflections on Metal Studies (22) | Part I Metal Musicology: 3 Iron and Steel: Forging Heavy Metal’s Song Structures or the Impact of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest on Metal’s Musical Language (35), 4 ‘It’s Like a Mach Piece, Really’: Critiquing the Neo-Classical Aesthetic of ’80s Heavy Metal Music (50), 5 The Distortion Paradox: Analyzing Contemporary Metal Production (68) | Part II Metal Music Scenes: 6 Voracious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation of the San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Scene (89), 7 The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of Metallica Fans and ‘Sell-Out’ Accusations (106), 8 Use Your Mind?: Embodiments of Protest, Transgression, and Grotesque Realism in British Grindcore (125) | Part III Metal Demographics and Identity: 9 The Numbers of the Beast: Surveying Iron Maiden’s Global Tribe (145), 10 The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead: The Hellfest Survey (167), 11 Un(su)Stained Class? Figuring out the Identity Politics of Heavy Metal’s Class Demographics (190) | Part IV Metal Markets and Commerce: 12 Tunes from the Land of the Thousand Lakes: Early Years of Internationalization in Finnish Heavy Metal (209), 13 Death Symbolism in Metal Jewelry: Circuits of Consumption from Subculture to the High Street (227) | Part V Metal and Gender Politics: 14 ‘Getting My Soul Back’: Empowerment Narratives and Identities among Women in Extreme Metal in North Carolina (245), 15 Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange Perspective (261), 16 Masculine Pleasure? Women’s Encounters with Hard Rock and Metal Music (277) | Part VI Metal and Cultural Studies: 17 Retro Rock and Heavy History (297), 18 Transforming Detail into Myth: Indescribable Experience and Mystical Discourse in Drone Metal (311) | Part VII Metal Futures: 19 The Future of Metal Is Bright and Hell Bent for Genre Destruction: A Response to Keith Kahn-Harris (333), 20 A Reply to Niall W.R. Scott and Tom O’Boyle (343) | Notes on the Editors and Contributors (351) | Index (359)
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