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Heavy Metal
Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris, Mark LeVine
Heavy metal is now over 40 years old. It emerged at the tail end of the 1960s in the work of bands including Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and - most importantly - Black Sabbath. In the 1970s and early 1980s, heavy metal crystallised as a genre as bands such... Read more
Published: 2013
Pages: 261
eBook: 9781845539405
Titus Hjelm is Lecturer in Finnish Society and Culture at University College London. His main areas of expertise are cultural sociology, sociology of religion, social problems, media and popular culture. He is currently working on a book on social constructionism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editing a volume titled Religion and Social Problems (Routledge, 2010). He is also a member of the internationally acclaimed metal band Thunderstone. Keith Kahn-Harris is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College. He is the author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (Berg, 2006) and writes the blog Metal Jew (www.metaljew.org). Mark LeVine is Professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture and Islamic studies at University of California Irvine and author and editor of several books, including Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2008 and Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (Zed Books, 2009).
Cover | Cover | ||
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Contents | v | ||
List of contributors | vii | ||
Introduction: | 1 | ||
Part I: Controversies | 15 | ||
Suicide solutions? | 17 | ||
‘How you gonna see me now’ | 36 | ||
Triumph of the maggots? | 50 | ||
Dworkin’s nightmare | 66 | ||
The ‘double controversy’ of Christian metal | 83 | ||
Hellfest: The thing that should not be? | 98 | ||
Part II: Countercultures | 115 | ||
‘I want you to support local metal’ | 117 | ||
Voice of our blood | 136 | ||
Extreme music for extreme people? | 152 | ||
The extreme metal ‘connoisseur’ | 166 | ||
Black metal soul music | 182 | ||
‘[I] hate girls and emo[tion]s’ | 201 | ||
Heavy metal and the deafening threat of the apolitical | 228 | ||
Index | 244 |