Queerness in Heavy Metal Music Metal Bent Routledge Studies in Popular Music Series
Auteur : Clifford-Napoleone Amber R.
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 performers. The dependence on that narrow dichotomy has limited heavy metal scholarship, resulting in poorly critiqued discussions of gender and sexuality that serve only to underpin the popular imagining of heavy metal as violent, homophobic and inherently masculine. This book queers heavy metal studies, bringing discussions of gender and sexuality in heavy metal out of that poorly theorized dichotomy.
In this interdisciplinary work, the author connects new and existing scholarship with a strong ethnographic study of heavy metal?s self-identified queer performers and fans in their own words, thus giving them a voice and offering an original and ground-breaking addition to scholarship on popular music, rock, and queer studies.
Introduction 1. Heavy Metal Queerscape 2. Black Leather 3. Outsider Togetherness 4. Everybody Knows 5. Eat Me Alive Conclusion
Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Nance Collections at the University of Central Missouri, USA.
Date de parution : 10-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 04-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de Queerness in Heavy Metal Music :
Mots-clés :
heavy metal; queerness; gender; sexuality; queer fans; popular music; performers; non-normative gender; queer belonging; Routledge Studies in Popular Music; hypermasculine; hyperfeminine; desire; self-identified queer performers; queer culture; ethnography; anthropology; American studies; ethnomusicology; popular culture; queer theory; spatiality; identity; Young Man; Gay Male Fan; Heavy Metal Fans; Metal Fans; Heavy Metal Scholarship; Heavy Metal Scenes; Judas Priest; Suzi Quatro; Corporeal Consumption; Heavy Metal Style; Black Metal; Female Rock Musicians; Mein Teil; Leather Culture; Heavy Metal Performance; Mosh Pit; Death Metal; Sonic Gestures; Slash Fiction; Symphonic Metal; Black Leather; Opaque Performance; Death Metal Fans