Overview
- Offers a sustained critical interrogation of the whiteness of metal scenes, cultures, and practices
- Analyses the significance of whiteness and its textual formations in Norway, South Africa and Australia
- Examines how literature within the field of Metal Music Studies perpetuates metal as inherently white and masculine
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
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.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Catherine Hoad is Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood
Book Subtitle: (Re)sounding Whiteness
Authors: Catherine Hoad
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67619-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67618-6Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67621-6Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67619-3Published: 25 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Sociology of Culture, Music, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime