Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Florian Heesch, Niall Scott, Professor Stan Hawkins , Professor Lori Burns

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Routledge
18 July 2016

Heavy Metal music; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities in an area of music that is sometimes mistakenly treated as exclusively sustaining a masculinist hegemony. The book combines a broad variety of perspectives on the main topic, regarding gender in connection to: the history of the genre; the range of metal subgenres; heavy metal's multidimensional scope (music, lyrics, performance, style, illustrations); men and women; sexualities and various local and global perspectives. Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality is a text that opens up the world of heavy metal to reveal that it is a very diverse and ground-breaking stage where gender play is at the centre of its theatricality and sustains its mass appeal.

Edited by: Florian Heesch, Niall Scott
Series edited by: Professor Stan Hawkins, Professor Lori Burns
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781472424792
ISBN 10: 1472424794
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 18 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Florian Heesch, musicologist, completed his doctoral thesis on operas and Swedish literature at the University of Gothenburg in 2006. He researched and lectured at several German universities, mainly in the fields of rock music, music and Norse mythology, popular music and queer theory. In 2013 he became professor of popular music and gender studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. Niall Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at UCLan in Preston. His primary research interest is in philosophy and heavy metal, and he is one of the founding members of the current metal studies movement. He also works in the fields of Cultural theory, Bioethics and Theology. Together with Rob Fisher and ID.net, he put together the first conference on Heavy metal in Salzburg in 2008, where he first met Florian Heesch. Niall is editor of Helvete, A Journal of Black Metal Theory and co-editor, with Prof Karl Spracklen of the journal Metal Music Studies (Intellect). He is currently the Chair of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), and has published widely and spoken internationally on heavy metal, politics, philosophy and cultural theory.