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9%OFFRoger Hargreaves - Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World - 9780822347330 - V9780822347330
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Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World

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Description for Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World Paperback. Heavy metal might not have been the most likely popular music genre to become global, but it has. This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, Easter Island, and more. Editor(s): Wallach, Jeremy; Berger, Harris M.; Greene, Paul D. Num Pages: 392 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for 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, China, 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 across cultures. The contributors explore the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347330
SKU
V9780822347330
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99-1

About Roger Hargreaves
Jeremy Wallach is Associate Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001. Harris M. Berger is Professor of Music at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of ... Read more

Reviews for Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World
“This is a timely collection, as recent books and films about punk and metal in the Middle East and South Asia shed light on a worldwide audience. Ethnomusicology collections and students of popular culture take note.” - Ed Graves, Library Journal “[I]f you are interested in Metal in Japan, there is something here for you. If you are into Sepultura ... Read more

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