{"product_id":"blood-dusters-fisting-the-dead-rosemary-overell-9798216382249","title":"Blood Duster's Fisting the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis account of Melbourne porno-grindcore band Blood Duster's 1993 debut album \u003ci\u003eFisting the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e positions the \"pure evil filth\" album as a subcultural object at odds with Australia's cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith track titles invoking explicit language and lurid imagery, \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e was deliberately offensive. Drawing on interviews with the band, this book considers the subcultural work of causing offense in a sub-genre of extreme metal where offensiveness is a requirement. \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e's liner notes announced \"BLOOD DUSTER DOES NOT CONDONE SEXISM\" - apparently at odds with the lyrical material and the band's image. Through a consideration of how Blood Duster mobilized humor and exaggeration, Rosemary Overell considers how \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e might work as a critique of the misogyny it loudly declares. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlood Duster's debut also indicates other contradictions - their crusty, subcultural, grindcore status was legendary, but they were signed on an art-noise label (Dr Jim's Records), which proffered them to avant-garde music lovers. Further, in the cultural and political context of Prime Minister Paul Keating's progressive government's push for cosmopolitan middle class creative production - the 1990s Australian iteration of the \"culture wars\" - where does such sordid music fit in? \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e, in its vulgarity and contradictions, offers an insight into the subcultural politics of gender, taste and cultural value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosemary Overell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798216382249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rosemary Overell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520213004543,"sku":"9798216382249","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9189d4bf-7f6f-45da-8b38-ba1747468576.jpg?v=1778741409","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-dusters-fisting-the-dead-rosemary-overell-9798216382249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}