Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality

Florian Heesch is a musicologist who completed his doctoral thesis on operas and Swedish literature at the University of Gothenburg in 2006. He researched and lectured at several German universities, mainly in the fields of rock music, music and Norse mythology, popular music and queer theory. In 2013 he became professor of popular music and gender studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. Niall Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Lancashire in Preston. His primary research interest is in philosophy and heavy metal, and he is one of the founding members of the current metal studies movement. He also works in the fields of cultural theory, bioethics and theology. Together with Rob Fisher and ID.net, he put together the first conference on heavy metal in Salzburg in 2008, where he first met Florian Heesch. Niall is editor of Helvete, A Journal of Black Metal Theory and co-editor, with Professor Karl Spracklen, of the journal Metal Music Studies (Intellect). He is currently the chair of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), and has published widely and spoken internationally on heavy metal, politics, philosophy and cultural theory.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ChartsList of Music ExamplesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsHeavy Metal and Gender: An Introduction Florian Heesch and Niall ScottPart I Heavy Metal Culture – A Case of Limited Diversity in Gender and Sexuality?1 Playing with Gender in the Key of Metal Deena Weinstein2 "Coming Out": Realising the Possibilities of Metal Keith Kahn-Harris3 Metal, Masculinity, and the Queer Subject Amber R. Clifford-NapoleonePart II Solo Metal Masculinities4 Living History: The Guitar Virtuoso and Composer Steve Vai Michael Custodis5 "Never say die!" Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model Dietmar Elflein6 Placing Gender: Alice Cooper’s Motor City Move Sarah GerkPart III Extended Critical Metal Masculinities7 Wild Side: Self-Styling and the Aesthetics of Metal in the Music Videos of Mötley Crüe Mollie Ables8 "Body Count’s in the House": Challenging the US Working-Class Metal-Hero Thorsten Hindrichs9 The Monstrous Male and Myths of Masculinity in Heavy Metal Niall ScottInterlude10 Female Metal Singers: A Panel Discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Görtz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch Sarah Chaker and Florian HeeschPart IV Dialogues and Intermediaries11 What is ‘male’ about black and death metal music? An empirical approach Sarah Chaker12 "Girls like metal, too!" Female reader’s engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine Andy R. Brown13 "This isn’t over ‘til I say it’s over!" Narratives of Male Frustration in Deathcore and Beyond Marcus Erbe14 Relocating Violence in Thrash Metal Lyrics: The Tori Amos Cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood Luc Bellemare15 Liquid Identity: Love, Heavy Metal and the Dynamics of Gender in Anime Soundtracks Maria GrajdianPart V Global and Local Perspectives16 Heavy, Death and Doom Metal in Brazil: A Study on the Creation and Maintenance of Stylistic Boundaries within Metal Bands Hugo Ribeiro17 Brutal Masculinity in Osaka’s Extreme-metal Scene Rosemary Overell18 Race and Gender in Globalized and Postmodern Metal Magnus NilssonIndex