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  • Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood

    (Re)sounding Whiteness

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value which obscures the contributions of women and people of colour, and affirms the exclusory understandings of ‘belonging’ which have ... Read more

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  • Mixing Pop and Politics

    Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century

    The political has always been part of popular music, but how does that play out in today’s musical and political landscape? Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century provides an innovative exploration of the complex politics of popular music in its contemporary formations.Amid the shifting paradigms of power in the 2020s, the chapters in this book go beyond ... Read more

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  • Australian Metal Music

    Identities, Scenes, and Cultures

    Series series Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture
    Defining 'Australian metal' is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike. Australian metal has long been situated in a complex relationship between local and global trends, where the geographic distance between Australia and metal music's seemingly traditional centres in the United States and United Kingdom have meant that metal in Australia has been isolated from international scenes. ... Read more

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