Global Metal Music and Culture

Andy R. Brown is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications at Bath Spa University, UK. Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University , UK. Keith Kahn-Harris is honorary research fellow and associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, UK. Niall W. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

1. Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Niall W.R. Scott 2. Reflections on Metal Studies Deena Weinstein Part 1: 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 Dietmar Elflein 4.‘It’s like a Mach piece, really’: Critiquing the Neo-classical Aesthetic of 80s Heavy Metal Music Gareth Heritage 5. The Distortion Paradox: Analysing Contemporary Metal Production Mark Mynett Part 2: Metal Music Scenes 6. Voracious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation of the San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Scene Kevin Fellezs 7. The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of Metallica Fans and ‘Sell-Out’ Accusations Eric Smialek 8. Use Your Mind?: Embodiments of Protest, Transgression, and Grotesque Realism in British Grindcore Gabby Riches Part 3: Metal Demographics and Identity 9. The Numbers of the Beast: Surveying Iron Maiden’s Global Tribe Jean-Philippe Ury-Petesch 10. The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead: The Hellfest Survey Christophe Guibert and Gérôme Guibert 11.Un(su)Stained Class? Figuring Out the Identity-Politics of Heavy Metal’s Class Demographics Andy R. Brown Part 4: Metal Markets and Commerce 12. Tunes from the Land of the Thousand Lakes: Early Years of Internationalization in Finnish Heavy Metal Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Eero Sipilä 13. Death Symbolism in Metal Jewellery: Circuits of Consumption from Subculture to the High Street Claire Barratt Part 5: Metal and Gender Politics 14. ‘Getting My Soul Back’: Empowerment Narratives and Identities among Women in Extreme Metal in North Carolina Jamie E. Patterson 15. Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange Perspective Sonia Vasan 16. Masculine Pleasure? Women’s Encounters with Hard Rock and Metal Music Rosemary Lucy Hill Part 6: Metal and Cultural Studies 17. Retro Rock and Heavy History Simon Poole 18. Transforming Detail into Myth: Indescribable Experience and Mystical Discourse in Drone Metal Owen Coggins Part 7: Metal Futures 19. The Future of Metal is Bright and Hell Bent for Genre Destruction: A Response to Keith Kahn-Harris Tom O’Boyle and Niall Scott 20. A Reply to Scott and O’Boyle Keith Kahn-Harris