Queerness in heavy metal music: metal bent

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and s...

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Main Author: Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R. 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge 2015
Edition:First published
Series:Routledge Studies in Popular Music 5
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Summary:While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance, pervasiveness, and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused almost solely on the roles of heterosexual hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity in fans and perf
Physical Description:XIV, 166 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9780415728317

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