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Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation
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Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation
BY
Karl Spracklen
Leeds Beckett University, UK
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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First edition 2020
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Contents
| About the Author | vii |
| Chapter 1 Introduction, Context and Methods | 1 |
| Chapter 2 The Old Nationalism and Masculinity: Historical Review | 15 |
| Chapter 3 Populism, Nationalism and Masculinity Today: A Review | 29 |
| Chapter 4 Theories of Leisure and Music; and Music, Identity and Place | 43 |
| Chapter 5 Iron Maiden: True Stories of Men at War | 59 |
| Chapter 6 Manowar: True Metal Warriors | 75 |
| Chapter 7 Bathory and Viking Metal | 89 |
| Chapter 8 The Norwegians as “Authentic” Vikings: Enslaved, Windir and Wardruna | 103 |
| Chapter 9 Pagan Metal in Eastern Europe | 119 |
| Chapter 10 Finnish Folk Metal: Raising Drinking Horns in Mainstream Metal | 135 |
| Chapter 11 English Heritage Black Metal and the Equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire | 151 |
| Chapter 12 Challenging Hegemony? Darkestrah, and Zeal & Ardor | 167 |
| Chapter 13 Conclusions | 183 |
| References | 189 |
| Discography | 199 |
| Index | 201 |
About the Author
Karl Spracklen is a Professor of Sociology of Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University (UK), and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. He is interested in leisure and identity and belonging and exclusion, and has published over a hundred papers, books, textbooks and book chapters.
