ISBN:
9780815365587
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 166 Seiten
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Diagramme
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Popular Music 5
DDC:
781.6608664
Abstract:
While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance, pervasiveness, and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused almost solely on the roles of heterosexual hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity in fans and perf
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