Metal music and the re-imagining of masculinity, place, race and nation

• Main Author: Spracklen, Karl (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Series: Emerald studies in metal music and culture.
• Subjects: Heavy metal (Music); Masculinity in music.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781838674458; 9781838674434
• DOI: 10.1108/9781838674434
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) ; cm.

Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power. The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House has shown th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter one. Introduction, context and methods
• Chapter two. The old nationalism and masculinity: historical review
• Chapter three. Populism, nationalism and masculinity today: a review chapter
• Chapter four. Theories of leisure and music; and music, identity and place
• Chapter five. Iron Maiden: true stories of men at war
• Chapter six. Manowar: true metal warriors
• Chapter seven. Bathory and Viking metal
• Chapter eight. The Norwegians as 'authentic' Vikings: enslaved, Windir and Wardruna
• Chapter nine. Pagan metal in Eastern Europe
• Chapter ten. Finnish folk metal: raising drinking horns in mainstream metal
• Chapter eleven. English heritage black metal and the equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire
• Chapter twelve. Challenging hegemony? Darkestrah, and Zeal & Ardor
• Chapter thirteen. Conclusions
• References
• Discography.