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

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Contents * Acknowledgments VII Introduction ix I. Metallurgies: Genre) History) and the Construction ofHeavy Metal I Genre and Commercial Mediation 3, Casting Heavy Metal 7, Heavy Metal in the 1980s II, Headbangers 16, "Nasty, Brutish, and Short"? Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal 20 2. Beyond the VocaLr: Toward theAnalysis of PopularMusical Discourses 26 Genre and Discourse 27, Musicological Analysis 34, Writing about Music 39, Metal as Discourse 41, "Runnin' with the Devil" 51, Negotiation and Pleasure 55 3. Eruptions: Heavy MetalAppropriations ofClassical Virtuosity 57 Classical Prestige and Popular Meanings 58, Ritchie Blackmore and the Classical Roots of Metal 63, Edward Van Halen and the New Virtuosity 67, Randy Rhoads: Metal Gets Serious 78, Yngwie Malmsteen: Metal Augmented and Diminished 93, Popular Music as Cultural Dialogue 102 4. ForgingMasculinity: Heavy Metal Sounds andImages ofGender 108 Behind the Screen: Listening to Gender 112, No Girls Allowed: Exscription in Heavy Metal 114, The Kiss ofDeath: Misogyny and the Male Victim 117, Living on a Prayer: Romance 120, Nothing but a Good Time? Androgyny as a Political Party 124, "Real Men Don't Wear Makeup" 128 Contents / v 5. Can I Play withMadness? Mysticism, Horror, and Postmodern Politics 137 Professing Censorship: The PMRC and Its Academic Allies Attack 137, Suicide Solutions 145, Mysticism and Postmodernism in Heavy Metal 151, Horror and History 160, Guns N' Roses N' Marx N' Engels 165 Appendix I: Heavy Metal Canons 173 Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire 175 Notes 179 Select Discography 205 Select Bibliography 209 Index 215 Photographsfollow page 107 Contents / VI ...