Many bands may lay claim to inventing or popularising the term `heavy metal, but few would deny that Black Sabbath have defined the genre in the minds of many, and have come to embody its popular image. From the `classic first decade with singer Ozzy Osbourne, through the Ronnie James Dio period and the oft-overlooked later albums, the Sabbath ......
Working from and with countries spanning Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations, the contributors of this collection reflect on the social roles of metal music and stress how it faces oppressive experiences and aims to build a better world.
In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors' southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for ......
This book brings together researchers from twelve countries in Latin America to reflect on the social dimensions of metal music in Latin America. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution have shaped heavy metal ......
Heavy Music Mothers explores women and heavy music and how women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. With a focus on original interviews with contemporary rock and metal mothers, this is the first scholarly study that contextualizes the challenges and contributions of mothers in rock and metal music.
A chronological celebration of the lives of the Motley Crue, featuring quotes collected first hand by the author and memorabilia photography of the band throughout
The story is a classic rise, fall and rise again scenario -- they exploded onto the metal scene in 1994, enjoyed a successful string of albums and then lost their way in the nu-metal era.
From the creators of Gabba Gabba Hey! The Graphic Story of The Ramones comes an explosive new graphic novel about the world's greatest heavy metal band, Metallica.
This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences to reflect on extremity's polysemic and polymorphic characteristics.