Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

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Running with the Devil MUSIC / CULTURE A series from Wesleyan University Press Edited byRobertWalser and Susan Fast ORIGINATING EDITORS: George Lipsitz, Susan McClary, and Robert Walser Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, andPuerto Rican Cultures by Frances Aparicio Jazz Consciousness by PaulAusterlitz Metal, Rock, andJazz: Perception and the PhenomenologyMusical Experience by Harris M. Berger Identity andEverydayLife: Essays in the Study ofFolklore, Music andPopular Culture by Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro Music and Cinema edited by James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer MyMusic by Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project Echo andReverb: Fabricating Space in PopularMusic 1900-1960 by Peter Doyle Recollectingfrom thePast: Musical Practice and SpiritPossession on the East CoastofMadagascar byRon Emoff LocatingEastAsia in WesternArtMusic edited byYayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau«You Better Work!": Unde1lJroundDanceMusic inNt:W York City by Kai Fikentscher The OtherSide ofNowhere:Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, andPlace in Rap andHip-Hop by Murray Forman Wiredfor Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello Voices in Bali: Ene1lJiesandPerceptions in VocalMusic andDance Theater by Edward Herbst SymphonicMetamorphoses: Subjectivity andAlienation inMahler's Re-Cycled Songs by Raymond Knapp Music and Technoculture edited by Rene T.A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr. A Thousand Honey CreeksLater:My Life in Musicfrom Basie toMotown-and Beyond by Preston Love Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga ofNorthAustralia byAllan Marett PhatBeats, DopeRhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin' Upper by Ian Maxwell GlobalNoise: Rap andHip-Hop outside the USA edited byTony Mitchell (continued on page 223) ROBERT WALSER * Runningwith theDevil POW E R, G END E R, AND MADNESS IN HEAVY METAL MUSIC * WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 1993 by Robert Walser All rights reserved Originally produced in 1993 by Wesleyan/ University Press ofNew England, Hanover, NH 03755 Printed in the United States ofAmerica 15 14 13 12 II IO 9 8 CIP data appear at the end ofthe book ISBNS for the paperback edition: ISBN-I3: 978-0-8195-6260-9 ISBN-IO: 0-8195-6260-2 Acknowledgments for song lyrics quoted: "Electric Eye": Words and music by Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, and K. K. Downing,© 1982 EMI APRIL MUSIC, INC. / CREWGLEN LTD. / EBONYTREE LTD. / GEARGATE LTD. All rights controlled and administered by EMI APRIL MUSIC, INC. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Suicide Solution": Words and music by John Osbourne, Robert Daisley, and Randy Rhoads, TRO-© Copyright 1981 Essex Music International, Inc. and Kord Music Publishers , New York, N.Y. Used by permission. Cover photo: Van Halen. (c) Chris Walter/Photofeatures International ...