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 performers. The dependence on that narrow dichotomy has
limited heavy metal scholarship, resulting in poorly critiqued
discussions of gender and sexuality that serve only to underpin the
popular imagining of heavy metal as violent, homophobic and
inherently masculine. This book queers heavy metal studies,
bringing discussions of gender and sexuality in heavy metal out of
that poorly theorized dichotomy.
In this interdisciplinary work, the author connects new and
existing scholarship with a strong ethnographic study of heavy
metal s self-identified queer performers and fans in their own
words, thus giving them a voice and offering an original and
ground-breaking addition to scholarship on popular music, rock, and
queer studies."
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