Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music Culture)
Heavy metal music, one of the most significant musical influences of the 1980s, has received little serious attention by academics. This ethnographic study goes a long way toward counteracting the disdain held by musicologists for heavy metal by presenting a solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure. and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal. Along with consulting basic texts, Walsh read fan magazines, as well as interviewing and surveying fans and musicians, and his effort shows. This is a comprehensive, often engrossing study of heavy metal music and its followers. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.-- Debora Richey, California State Univ.Fullerton Lib.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.