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Heavy Metal Gender and Sexuality Interdisciplinary Approaches

by Florian Heesch, Niall Scott

Heavy metal (music)Gender identity in musicHistory and criticismHeavy metal musicSex in music

Playing with gender in the key of metal - 'Coming out': realizing the possibilities of metal - Metal, masculinity and the queer subject - Living history: the guitar virtuoso and composer Steve Vai - Never say die!: Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model - Placing gender: Alice Cooper's motor city move - Wild side: self-styling and the aesthetics of metal in the music videos of Motley Crue - 'Body Count's in the House': challenging the US working-class metal hero - The monstrous male and myths of masculinity in heavy metal - Female metal singers: a panel discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Gortz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch - What is 'male' about black and death metal music? - 'Girls like metal too!': female reader's engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine - 'This isn't over 'til I say it's over!': narratives of male frustration in deathcore and beyond - Relocating violence in thrash metal lyrics: the Tori Amos cover of Slayer's Raining blood - Liquid identity: love, heavy metal and the dynamics of gender in anime soundtracks - Heavy, death and doom metal in Brazil - Brutal masculinity in Osaka's extreme-metal scene - Race and gender in globalized and p

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