Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood: (Re)sounding Whiteness (1st ed. 2021) (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2021

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ISBN-13:
9783030676193
Related ISBNs:
9783030676186
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Music, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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