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Contents

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Foreword to the 2014 Edition vii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction xix

1. Metallurgies: Genre, History, and the Construction of Heavy Metal 1

Genre and Commercial Mediation 3

Casting Heavy Metal 7

Heavy Metal in the 1980s 11

Headbangers 16

“Nasty, Brutish, and Short”? Rock Critics and Academics Evaluate Metal 20

2. Beyond the Vocals: Toward the Analysis of Popular Musical Discourses 26

Genre and Discourse 27

Musicological Analysis 34

Writing about Music 39

Metal as Discourse 41

“Runnin’ with the Devil” 51

Negotiation and Pleasure 55

3. Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity 57

Classical Prestige and Popular Meanings 58

Ritchie Blackmore and the Classical Roots of Metal 63

Edward Van Halen and the New Virtuosity 67

Randy Rhoads: Metal Gets Serious 78

Yngwie Malmsteen: Metal Augmented and Diminished 93

Popular Music as Cultural Dialogue 102

4. Forging Masculinity: Heavy Metal Sounds and Images of Gender 108

Behind the Screen: Listening to Gender 112

No Girls Allowed: Exscription in Heavy Metal 114

The Kiss of Death: Misogyny and the Male Victim 117

Living on a Prayer: Romance 120

Nothing but a Good Time? Androgyny as a Political Party 124

“Real Men Don’t Wear Makeup” 128

5. Can I Play with Madness? Mysticism, Horror, and Postmodern Politics 137

Professing Censorship: The PMRC and Its Academic Allies Attack 137

Suicide Solutions 143

Mysticism and Postmodernism in Heavy Metal 151

Horror and History 160

Guns N’ Roses N’ Marx N’ Engels 165

Afterword to the 2014 Edition 173

Appendix 1: Heavy Metal Canons 181

Appendix 2: Heavy Metal Questionnaire 183

Notes 187

Select Discography 213

Select Bibliography 217

Index 223

Photographs follow page 107