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Author Hoad, Catherine, author

Title Heavy metal music, texts, and nationhood : (re)sounding whiteness / Catherine Hoad
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Leisure studies in a global era
Leisure studies in a global era.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Sound of White Noise -- 3. Norwegian black and Viking metal scenes -- 4. Territories of Whiteness in Afrikaans metal -- 5. Normophilic Whiteness and Banal Nationalism in Australian extreme metal -- 6.(Re)sounding, (re)sealing: Translocal Terrains of Whiteness across Norway, South Africa and Australia -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Pale
Summary 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. Catherine Hoad is Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Notes Includes index
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Subject Heavy metal (Music) -- Social aspects
White people -- Race identity
Men, White -- Social life and customs
Music and race.
White people -- Social life and customs
Music and race
White people -- Race identity
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030676193
3030676196