Gender, Metal and the Media

Rosemary Lucy Hill is Lecturer in Sociology at University of Leeds, UK. She researches gender, popular music and big data. She has published on the metal media, the moral panic around emo, subcultural theory and semiotics. She appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed on the subject of women fans, metal and subcultures. 

1.Gender, Metal and the Media: An Introduction.- 2.Hard Rock and Metal as an Imaginary Community.- 3.The media and the imaginary community.- 4.Women Fans and the Myth of the Groupie.- 5.Listening to Hard Rock and Metal Music.- 6.Metal and Sexism.- 7.The Gendered Experience of Music 

“Gender, Metal, and the Media is a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening book. Readers will leave energized, thinking about gender and fandom in new ways. With its solid use of subcultural theory, this book’s primary audience would be scholars of subcultural studies, but it should also be of interest to scholars and students of media, culture, and gender studies.” (Elizabeth Cherry, Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 18 (1), December, 2017)