During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global,
becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for devoted fans
around the world. In "Metal Rules the Globe," ethnographers and
some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal
studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and
culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada,
Easter Island, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal,
Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, and the United States, describing how
the sounds of heavy metal and the meanings that metalheads
attribute to them vary from culture to culture. The contributors
explore heavy metal fandom in relation to masculinity, race,
ethnicity, class, and the music industry, and as a means for
disenfranchised youth to negotiate modernity and social change.
Their essays reveal metal fans as likely to criticize the
consumerism, class divisiveness, and uneven development of
globalization as they are to reject traditional norms of behavior.
Crucially, the contributors never lose sight of the sense of
community and sonic pleasure to be experienced in the distorted,
pounding, amplified sounds of local metal scenes.
"Contributors." Idelber Avelar, Albert Bell, Dan Bendrups,
Harris M. Berger, Paul D. Greene, Ross Hagen, Sharon Hochhauser,
Shuhei Hosokawa, Keith Kahn-Harris, Kei Kawano, Rajko Mursič, Steve
Waksman, Jeremy Wallach, Robert Walser, Deena Weinstein, Cynthia P.
Wong
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