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Metal Music and the Re-Imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

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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 that angry white men still wield huge social and cultural power in this new century. The aim of this monograph is to explore how metal music might be seen as a leisure space that resists the norms and values of the mainstream; but also how it might also serve to re-affirm and construct those norms and values. In particular, this book is interested in how forms of metal might work to re-imagine masculinity, race, nation and class in an intersectional way through the myth of warrior masculinity and blood and soil.
This monograph explores the history of the myths, and the reaction by fans to the music. The focus is extended to bands that use the warrior-nation myth in places and countries beyond the global North, and in ways that challenge or subvert hegemony.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: emerald publishing

Release: May 10, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781838674441

Metal Music and the Re-Imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

3/5 ( ratings)

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 that angry white men still wield huge social and cultural power in this new century. The aim of this monograph is to explore how metal music might be seen as a leisure space that resists the norms and values of the mainstream; but also how it might also serve to re-affirm and construct those norms and values. In particular, this book is interested in how forms of metal might work to re-imagine masculinity, race, nation and class in an intersectional way through the myth of warrior masculinity and blood and soil.
This monograph explores the history of the myths, and the reaction by fans to the music. The focus is extended to bands that use the warrior-nation myth in places and countries beyond the global North, and in ways that challenge or subvert hegemony.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: emerald publishing

Release: May 10, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781838674441

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