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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality : Interdisciplinary Approaches, Paperback / softback Book

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality : Interdisciplinary Approaches Paperback / softback

Edited by Florian Heesch, Niall Scott

Part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series series

Paperback / softback

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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture.

Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities in an area of music that is sometimes mistakenly treated as exclusively sustaining a masculinist hegemony.

The book combines a broad variety of perspectives on the main topic, regarding gender in connection to: the history of the genre; the range of metal subgenres; heavy metal's multidimensional scope (music, lyrics, performance, style, illustrations); men and women; sexualities and various local and global perspectives.

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality is a text that opens up the world of heavy metal to reveal that it is a very diverse and ground-breaking stage where gender play is at the centre of its theatricality and sustains its mass appeal.

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