
Running with the Devil
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ROBERT WALSER is a professor and director of the Center of Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He has published extensively on popular music, including Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History. Walser has received NEH and ACLS fellowships and has twice won the Irving Lowens Award. HARRIS M. BERGER is professor of music and performance studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Stance and coeditor of Metal Rules the Globe.
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- Cover
- Running with the Devil
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to the 2014 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal
- Genre and Commercial Mediation
- Casting Heavy Metal
- Heavy Metal in the 1980s
- Headbangers
- "Nasty, Brutish, and Short"? Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal
- 2. Beyond the Vocals: Toward the Analysis of Popular Musical Discourses
- Genre and Discourse
- Musicological Analysis
- Writing about Music
- Metal as Discourse
- "Ruinin' with the Devil"
- Negotiation and Pleasure
- 3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity
- Classical Prestige and Popular Meanings
- Ritchie Blackmore and the Classical Roots of Metal
- Edward Van Halen and the New Virtuosity
- Randy Rhoads: Metal Gets Serious
- Yngwie Malmsteen: Metal Augmented and Diminished
- Popular Music as Cultural Dialogue
- 4. Forging Masculinity: Heavy Metal Sounds and Images of Gender
- Behind the Screen: Listening to Gender
- No Girls Allowed: Exscription in Heavy Metal
- The Kiss of Death: Misogyny and the Male Victim
- Living on a Prayer: Romance
- Nothing but a Good Time? Androgyny as a Political Party
- "Real Men Don't Wear Makeup
- 5. Can I Play with Madness? Mysticism, Horror, and Postmodern Politics
- Professing Censorship: The PMRC and Its Academic Allies Attack
- Suicide Solutions
- Mysticism and Postmodernism in Heavy Metal
- Horror and History
- Guns N' Roses N' Marx N' Engels
- Afterword to the 2014 Edition
- Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons
- Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire
- Notes
- Select Discography
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
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