Teaching Metal
Will be published approx. on 24. December 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
979-8-216-37318-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book to create a space for college instructors to teach Metal music and culture across multiple disciplines. It collects sixteen teachers' innovative pedagogical strategies, from English, History, and Religion to Engineering and Media Communication Studies.
Each chapter takes a unique approach to teaching metal, including how it can be used to create academic freedom in the classroom, how to untangle its sonic complexity, how it can inform and be informed by other disciplines, and even how to sneak it into a curriculum. They also touch on core themes from both musical and non-musical disciplines, ranging from rhyme and meter to storytelling, politics and medievalism, tackling some of the challenges inherent in this field such as the role of women and separating the art from the artist. Metal Studies is still an emerging field, but this book is a pioneering effort to spotlight its value to the teaching process and interdisciplinary pedagogy.
Each chapter takes a unique approach to teaching metal, including how it can be used to create academic freedom in the classroom, how to untangle its sonic complexity, how it can inform and be informed by other disciplines, and even how to sneak it into a curriculum. They also touch on core themes from both musical and non-musical disciplines, ranging from rhyme and meter to storytelling, politics and medievalism, tackling some of the challenges inherent in this field such as the role of women and separating the art from the artist. Metal Studies is still an emerging field, but this book is a pioneering effort to spotlight its value to the teaching process and interdisciplinary pedagogy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-216-37318-6 (9798216373186)
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Persons
Bryan Bardine is a full professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton, USA
Kevin Ebert is a professional guitarist and educator, formerly adjunct professor at Xavier University, USA
Kevin Ebert is a professional guitarist and educator, formerly adjunct professor at Xavier University, USA
Content
Foreword, Jeremy Wayne Wallach (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Prologue: Teaching Metal for 40 Years... and not Knowing it, Deena Weinstein (DePaul University, USA)
1. Introduction Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA) and Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)
2. Sneakin' Metal into the Media Communication Curriculum: Confessions of An 00's Academic, Andy Brown (Independent Scholar, UK)
3. Master of Puppets: Heavy Metal in the Music Curriculum, Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University, USA)
3. Genres in Dialogue: Teaching Metal and Punk Together, Steve Waksman (University of Huddersfield, UK)
4. Heavy Metal and Translation as Liberation in the Religious Studies Classroom, Charlotte Naylor Davis (Sarum College, UK)
5. Examining Metal Music and Culture in the College Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching, Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA)
6. Just Sounds Like Noise': Disentangling Metal's Sonic Complexity as a Pedagogical Framework for Transmutation, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack (Western University, Canada)
7. Heavy Metal in the Classroom: Approaches to Teaching in the Disciplines of History and Art History, Antje Bosselman-Ruickbie (Giessen University, Germany) and Thomas Gottlich (Goetheschule Wetzlar, Germany)
8. Teaching Engineering Concepts via Heavy Metal Music, Brian Kirkmeyer (Miami University, USA)
9. From Shakespeare to Spiritbox: How to Use Metal Music to Teach College Level English Lessons, Jordan Accurso (Stevenson University, USA) and Anthony Accurso (Independent Scholar, USA)
10. An Ethic of Listening: Black Metal in the Classroom, Michael Dodson (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
11. Bridging Heavy Metal and the Music Conservatory through Teacher Professional Development, David Miguel (Independent Scholar, Portugal)
12. Transcending the Institution: Nomadic Teaching of Metal Studies in Front of the Peruvian Academic Establishment, Jose' Ignacio Lopez Ramirez Gaston (Universidad Nacional de Musica - Lima, Peru)
13. Loud and Political: Exploring the Sonic and Social Connections, Reinhard Kopanski (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany)
14. Medieval Metal in the Literature Classroom, Dean Swinford (Fayetteville State University, USA)
15. Spreading the Disease: Teaching a Successful Metal Music Class, Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)
Prologue: Teaching Metal for 40 Years... and not Knowing it, Deena Weinstein (DePaul University, USA)
1. Introduction Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA) and Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)
2. Sneakin' Metal into the Media Communication Curriculum: Confessions of An 00's Academic, Andy Brown (Independent Scholar, UK)
3. Master of Puppets: Heavy Metal in the Music Curriculum, Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University, USA)
3. Genres in Dialogue: Teaching Metal and Punk Together, Steve Waksman (University of Huddersfield, UK)
4. Heavy Metal and Translation as Liberation in the Religious Studies Classroom, Charlotte Naylor Davis (Sarum College, UK)
5. Examining Metal Music and Culture in the College Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching, Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA)
6. Just Sounds Like Noise': Disentangling Metal's Sonic Complexity as a Pedagogical Framework for Transmutation, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack (Western University, Canada)
7. Heavy Metal in the Classroom: Approaches to Teaching in the Disciplines of History and Art History, Antje Bosselman-Ruickbie (Giessen University, Germany) and Thomas Gottlich (Goetheschule Wetzlar, Germany)
8. Teaching Engineering Concepts via Heavy Metal Music, Brian Kirkmeyer (Miami University, USA)
9. From Shakespeare to Spiritbox: How to Use Metal Music to Teach College Level English Lessons, Jordan Accurso (Stevenson University, USA) and Anthony Accurso (Independent Scholar, USA)
10. An Ethic of Listening: Black Metal in the Classroom, Michael Dodson (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
11. Bridging Heavy Metal and the Music Conservatory through Teacher Professional Development, David Miguel (Independent Scholar, Portugal)
12. Transcending the Institution: Nomadic Teaching of Metal Studies in Front of the Peruvian Academic Establishment, Jose' Ignacio Lopez Ramirez Gaston (Universidad Nacional de Musica - Lima, Peru)
13. Loud and Political: Exploring the Sonic and Social Connections, Reinhard Kopanski (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany)
14. Medieval Metal in the Literature Classroom, Dean Swinford (Fayetteville State University, USA)
15. Spreading the Disease: Teaching a Successful Metal Music Class, Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)