Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood: (Re)Sounding Whiteness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030676216)

This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value which obscures the contributions of women and people of colour, and affirms the exclusory understandings of 'belonging' which have featured in the metal scenes of Norway, South Africa, and Australia.

Utilizing critical discourse analysis and critical textual analysis of musical texts, promotional material, and participant-based observation ethnographies, it explores how the texts, discourses, and practices produced and articulated by metal scene members and scholars alike have presented heavy metal as a white, masculine pastime, yet also considers the vital work done by scene members to confront expressions of exclusory misogyny and racism when they emerge in metal scenes.

The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of metal music studies, leisure studies, sociology of culture and sociology of racism.

Author: Catherine Hoad
ISBN-10: 3030676218
ISBN-13: 9783030676216
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.61d