Metal Rules the Globe

Metal Rules the Globe

Heavy Metal Music around the World

  • Author: Wallach, Jeremy; Berger, Harris M.; Greene, Paul D.
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822347163
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822392835
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2011
  • Month: December
  • Pages: 392
  • DDC: 781.6609
  • Language: English
During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Metal Rules the Globe, ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada, China, Easter Island, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, and the United States, describing how the sounds of heavy metal and the meanings that metalheads attribute to them vary across cultures. The contributors explore the dynamics of masculinity, class, race, and ethnicity in metal scenes; the place of metal in the music industry; and the ways that disenfranchised youth use metal to negotiate modernity and social change. They reveal heavy metal fans as just as likely to criticize the consumerism, class divisiveness, and uneven development of globalization as they are to reject traditional cultural norms. Crucially, they never lose sight of the sense of community and sonic pleasure to be experienced in the distorted, pounding sounds of local metal scenes.

Contributors. Idelber Avelar, Albert Bell, Dan Bendrups, Harris M. Berger, Paul D. Greene, Ross Hagen, Sharon Hochhauser, Shuhei Hosokawa, Keith Kahn-Harris, Kei Kawano, Rajko Muršič,Steve Waksman, Jeremy Wallach, Robert Walser, Deena Weinstein, Cynthia P. Wong

  • Contents
  • Part 1. Introduction: The Global Conquest Of An Outcast Genre
    • Affective Overdrive, Scene Dynamics, and Identity in the Global Metal Scene / Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene
    • The Globalization of Metal / Deena Weinstein
  • Part 2. Metal, Gender, Modernity
    • “A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty”: Masculinity, Male Camaraderie, and Chinese Heavy Metal in the 1990s / Cynthia P. Wong
    • Unleashed in the East: Metal Music, Masculinity, and “Malayness” in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore / Jeremy Wallach
  • Part 3. Metal and the Nation
    • Electronic and Affective Overdrive: Tropes of Transgression in Nepal’s Heavy Metal Scene / Paul D. Greene
    • Otherwise National: Locality and Power in the Art of Sepultura / Idelber Avelar
  • Part 4. Metal and Extremist Ideologies
    • The Marketing of Anglo-Identity in the North American Hatecore Metal Industry / Sharon Hochhauser
    • Musical Style, Ideology, and Mythology in Norwegian Black Metal / Ross Hagen
    • “You Are from Israel and That Is Enough to Hate You Forever”: Racism, Globalization, and Play within the Global Extreme Metal Scene / Keith Kahn-Harris
  • Part 5. Metal and the Music Industry
    • Arenas of the Imagination: Global Tours and the Heavy Metal Concert in the 1970s / Steve Waksman
    • Thunder in the Far East: The Heavy Metal Industry in 1990s Japan / Kei Kawano and Shuhei Hosokawa
  • Part 6. Small Nation/Small Scene Case Studies
    • Metal in a Micro Island State: An Insider’s Perspective / Albert Bell
    • Noisy Crossroads: Metal Scenes in Slovenia / Rajko Muršič
    • Nako: The Metal in the Marrow of Easter Island Music / Dan Bendrups
  • Afterword / Robert Walser
  • Acknowledgments
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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