Wallach / Berger / Greene Metal Rules the Globe

Heavy Metal Music around the World
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9283-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, and Easter Island. The volume is divided into sections covering the broader topics of gender, nation, racism, the music industry, and global and local perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallach, Jeremy

Berger, Harris M.

Greene, Paul D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 3
The Globalization of Metal / Deena Weinstein 34
Part 2. Metal, Gender, Modernity
"A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty": Masculinity, Male Camaraderie, and Chinese Heavy Metal in the 1990s / Cynthia P. Wong 63
Unleashed in the East: Metal Music, Masculinity, and "Malayness" in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore / Jeremy Wallach 86
Part 3. Metal and the Nation
Electronic and Affective Overdrive: Tropes of Transgression in Nepal's Heavy Metal Scene / Paul D. Greene 109
Otherwise National: Locality and Power in the Art of Sepultura / Idelber Avelar 135
Part 4. Metal and Extremist Ideologies
The Marketing of Anglo-Identity in the North American Hatecore Metal Industry / Sharon Hochhauser 161
Musical Style, Ideology, and Mythology in Norwegian Black Metal / Ross Hagen 180
"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 200
Part 5. Metal and the Music Industry
Arenas of the Imagination: Global Tours and the Heavy Metal Concert in the 1970s / Steve Waksman 227
Thunder in the Far East: The Heavy Metal Industry in 1990s Japan / Kei Kawano and Shuhei Hosokawa 247
Part 6. Small Nation/Small Scene Case Studies
Metal in a Micro Island State: An Insider's Perspective / Albert Bell 271
Noisy Crossroads: Metal Scenes in Slovenia / Rajko Muršic 294
Nako: The Metal in the Marrow of Easter Island Music / Dan Bendrups 313
Afterword / Robert Walser 333
Acknowledgments 337
Works Cited 339
Contributors 367
Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Wallach is Associate Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001.Harris M. Berger is Professor of Music at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture and Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience.Paul D. Greene is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Integrative Arts at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. He is a co-editor of Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures.