Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs; Part I Metal Commodities; 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal; 2 Metal Goes 'Pop': The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream; 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; 4 Demons, Devils and Witches: The Occult in Heavy Metal Music; 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction; 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal.
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Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first century. In this book, individual contributors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. The wide range of approaches will provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture.
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Heavy metal music in Britain.
Heavy metal (Music)-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
Heavy metal (Music)-- Social aspects-- Great Britain.