Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Charts
• List of Music Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Heavy Metal and Gender: An Introduction Florian Heesch and Niall Scott
• Part I Heavy Metal Culture - A Case of Limited Diversity in Gender and Sexuality?
• 1 Playing with Gender in the Key of Metal Deena Weinstein
• 2 "Coming Out": Realising the Possibilities of Metal Keith Kahn-Harris
• 3 Metal, Masculinity, and the Queer Subject Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
• Part II Solo Metal Masculinities
• 4 Living History: The Guitar Virtuoso and Composer Steve Vai Michael Custodis
• 5 "Never say die!" Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model Dietmar Elflein
• 6 Placing Gender: Alice Cooper's Motor City Move Sarah Gerk
• Part III Extended Critical Metal Masculinities
• 7 Wild Side: Self-Styling and the Aesthetics of Metal in the Music Videos of Moetley Crue Mollie Ables
• 8 "Body Count's in the House": Challenging the US Working-Class Metal-Hero Thorsten Hindrichs
• 9 The Monstrous Male and Myths of Masculinity in Heavy Metal Niall Scott
• Interlude
• 10 Female Metal Singers: A Panel Discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Goertz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch Sarah Chaker and Florian Heesch
• Part IV Dialogues and Intermediaries
• 11 What is 'male' about black and death metal music? An empirical approach Sarah Chaker
• 12 "Girls like metal, too!" Female reader's engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine Andy R. Brown
• 13 "This isn't over 'til I say it's over!" Narratives of Male Frustration in Deathcore and Beyond Marcus Erbe
• 14 Relocating Violence in Thrash Metal Lyrics: The Tori Amos Cover of Slayer's Raining Blood Luc Bellemare
• 15 Liquid Identity: Love, Heavy Metal and the Dynamics of Gender in Anime Soundtracks Maria Grajdian
• Part V Global and Local Perspectives
• 16 Heavy, Death and Doom Metal in Brazil: A Study on the Creation and Maintenance of Stylistic Boundaries within Metal Bands Hugo Ribeiro
• 17 Brutal Masculinity in Osaka's Extreme-metal Scene Rosemary Overell
• 18 Race and Gender in Globalized and Postmodern Metal Magnus Nilsson
• Index