Heavy Metal: Controversies and Counterculture (Studies in Popular Music)
"A powerful addition to the metal studies literature, this book is overflowing with insights into the cultural politics of heavy metal music. With lively writing, interdisciplinary approaches, and a global perspective, these chapters offer ideas that have broad implications for the study of popular music scenes and their dynamics, media scandals, the relationship between music and affect, and the role of culture in social life." --Professor Harris M. Berger,Texas A & M University"From Christian metal to African American metal artists to the pleasures of feeling 'brutal,'Heavy Metal: Controversies and Counterculturesexplores a wide array of topics too often neglected in the critical study of the genre. The book is global in both the range of contributors and of its subject matter, and so joins the recent Metal Rules the Globe as proof that the field of global metal studies is in full bloom." --Steve Waksman,author of This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk"Heavy Metal: Controversies and Counterculturesgrants a deeper understanding of how metal's transgressive qualities have come to define how the genre is viewed from both the outside and within...its interdisciplinary and global focus, along with its often enthusiastic and engaging viewpoints, present a fascinating portrait of how the controversy surrounding metal operates within wider society." --Craig Hayes,PopMatters