Heavy metal music in Britain
By: [edited by] Gerd Bayer.
Contributors: Bayer, Gerd, 1971-
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series
Publisher: Ashgte
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780754664239
Subjects: Heavy metal (Music) -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Heavy metal (Music) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Metal commodities. The empowering masculinity of British heavy metal / Deena Weinstein ; Metal goes "Pop" : the explosion of heavy metal into the mainstream / Benjamin Earl ; The brutal truth : grindcore as the extreme realism of British heavy metal / Liam Francis Dee; title: The literary and mythological heritage. Demons, devils and witches : the occult in heavy metal music / Helen Farley ; Images of human-wrought despair and destruction : social critique in British apocalyptic and dystopian metal / Laura Wiebe Taylor ; From Achilles to Alexander : the classical world and the world of metal  / Iain Campbell ; Elements of Gothic literature in heavy metal : a match made in hell / Bryan A. Bardine; title: Heavy metal societies. The unmaking of the English working class : deindustrialization, reification, and the origins of heavy metal  / Ryan Moore ; No class? : class in Motörhead lyrics  / Magnus Nilsson ; Rocking the nation : identity formation in heavy metal / Gerd Bayer.