{"product_id":"heavy-metal-gender-and-sexuality-florian-heesch-9781472424792","title":"Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities in an area of music that is sometimes mistakenly treated as exclusively sustaining a masculinist hegemony. The book combines a broad variety of perspectives on the main topic, regarding gender in connection to: the history of the genre; the range of metal subgenres; heavy metal's multidimensional scope (music, lyrics, performance, style, illustrations); men and women; sexualities and various local and global perspectives. \u003cem\u003eHeavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e is a text that opens up the world of heavy metal to reveal that it is a very diverse and ground-breaking stage where gender play is at the centre of its theatricality and sustains its mass appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Florian Heesch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472424794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472424792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Florian Heesch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088332763391,"sku":"9781472424792","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21ca6704-68a2-466d-a25a-47c23bbd871e.jpg?v=1769104281","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heavy-metal-gender-and-sexuality-florian-heesch-9781472424792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}