Running with the devil
Subtitle: power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music
By: Robert Walser ; with a new afterword ; foreword by Harris M. Berger
Contributors: Berger, Harris M., 1966- writer of foreword, writer of afterword
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780819575142
Subjects: Rock music; History and criticism; Heavy metal (Music)
Description: A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music. This 2014 edition includes a new foreword contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author.
Notes: Previous edition: 1993.

"Foreword to the 2014 edition": pages vii-xv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222), discography (pages 213-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Metallurgies : genre, history, and the construction of heavy metal. Genre and commercial mediation ; Casting heavy metal ; Heavy metal in the 1980s ; Headbangers ; "Nasty, brutish, and short"? Rock critics and academics evaluate metal; title: Beyond the vocals : toward the analysis of popular musical discourses. Genre and discourse ; Musicological analysis ; Writing about music ; Metal as discourse ; "Runnin' with the devil" ; Negotiation and pleasure; title: Eruptions : heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity. Classical prestige and popular meanings ; Ritchie Blackmore and the classical roots of metal ; Edward Van Halen and the new virtuosity ; Randy Rhoads : metal gets serious ; Yngwie Malmsteen : metal augmented and diminished ; Popular music as cultural dialogue; title: Forging masculinity : heavy metal sounds and images of gender. Behind the screen : listening to gender ; No girls allowed : exscription in heavy metal ; The kiss of death : misogyny and the male victim ; Living on a prayer : romance ; Nothing but a good time? Androgyny as a political party ; "Real men don't wear makeup"; title: Can I play with madness? Mysticism, horror, and postmodern politics. Professing censorship : the PMRC and its academic allies attack ; Suicide solutions ; Mysticism and postmodernism in heavy metal ; Horror and history ; Guns n' Roses n' Marx n' Engels; title: Afterword to the 2014 edition; title: Appendix 1. Heavy metal canons; title: Appendix 2. Heavy metal questionnaire.