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Heavy metal : controversies and countercultures / edited by Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris and Mark LeVine.

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Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2013.

Heavy metal (Music) -- History and criticism.

Heavy metal (Music) -- Social aspects.

Studies in popular music.

9781845539412 (pbk.)

1845539419 (pbk.)

viii, 250 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I: Controversies -- Suicide solutions? Or, how the emo class of 2008 were able to contest their media demonization, whereas the headbangers, burnouts or 'children of ZoSo' generation were not / Andy R. Brown -- 'How you gonna see me now': Recontextualizing metal artists and moral panics / Brad Klypchak -- Triumph of the maggots? Valorization of metal in the rock press / Hélène Laurin -- Dworkin's nightmare: Porngrind as the sound of feminist fears / Lee Barron -- The 'double controversy' of Christian metal / Marcus Moberg -- Hellfest: The thing that should not be? Local perceptions and Catholic discourses on metal culture in France / Gérôme Guibert and Jedediah Sklower -- Pt. II: Countercultures -- 'I want you to support local metal': A theory of metal scene formation / Jeremy Wallach and Alexandra Levine -- Voice of our blood National Socialist discourses in black metal / Benjamin Hedge Olson --

Extreme music for extreme people? Norwegian black metal and transcendent violence / Michelle Phillipov -- The extreme metal 'connoisseur' / Nicola Allett -- Black metal soul music: Stone Vengeance and the aesthetics of race in heavy metal / Kevin Fellezs -- '[I] hate girls and emo[tion]s': Negotiating masculinity in grindcore music / Rosemary Overell -- Heavy metal and the deafening threat of the apolitical / Niall Scott.

Heavy metal is now over forty years old and has developed into a diverse and multi-faceted genre. Wherever it is found and however it is played, metal's fascination with transgression has often meant it has been embroiled in controversy. Controversies surrounding the alleged connection between heavy metal and, variously, sexual promiscuity, occultism and Satanism, subliminal messages, suicide and violence have made heavy metal a target of moral panics over popular culture. Metal has variously embraced, rejected, played with and tried to ignore this controversy, and it remains irrevocably marked by its controversial, transgressive tendencies. This anthology provides a thorough investigation of how and why metal becomes controversial, how metal 'scenes' are formed. It examines the relationship between metal and society, including how fans, musicians and the media create the culture of heavy metal. -- Back cover.

Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971-

LeVine, Mark, 1966-

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