Teaching Metal

Bryan A. Bardine is a full professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton, USAKevin Ebert is a professional guitarist and educator, formerly adjunct professor at Xavier University, USA

• Foreword, Jeremy Wayne Wallach (Bowling Green State University, USA)Prologue: Teaching Metal for 40 Years… and not Knowing it, Deena Weinstein (DePaul University, USA)1. Introduction Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA) and Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)2. Sneakin’ Metal into the Media Communication Curriculum: Confessions of An 00’s Academic, Andy Brown (Independent Scholar, UK)3. Master of Puppets: Heavy Metal in the Music Curriculum, Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University, USA)3. Genres in Dialogue: Teaching Metal and Punk Together, Steve Waksman (University of Huddersfield, UK)4. Heavy Metal and Translation as Liberation in the Religious Studies Classroom, Charlotte Naylor Davis (Sarum College, UK)5. Examining Metal Music and Culture in the College Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching, Bryan A. Bardine (University of Dayton, USA)6. Just Sounds Like Noise’: Disentangling Metal’s Sonic Complexity as a Pedagogical Framework for Transmutation, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack (Western University, Canada)7. Heavy Metal in the Classroom: Approaches to Teaching in the Disciplines of History and Art History, Antje Bosselman-Ruickbie (Gießen University, Germany) and Thomas Gottlich (Goetheschule Wetzlar, Germany)8. Teaching Engineering Concepts via Heavy Metal Music, Brian Kirkmeyer (Miami University, USA)9. From Shakespeare to Spiritbox: How to Use Metal Music to Teach College Level English Lessons, Jordan Accurso (Stevenson University, USA) and Anthony Accurso (Independent Scholar, USA)10. An Ethic of Listening: Black Metal in the Classroom, Michael Dodson (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)11. Bridging Heavy Metal and the Music Conservatory through Teacher Professional Development, David Miguel (Independent Scholar, Portugal)12. Transcending the Institution: Nomadic Teaching of Metal Studies in Front of the Peruvian Academic Establishment, Jose’ Ignacio Lopez Ramirez Gaston (Universidad Nacional de Musica – Lima, Peru)13. Loud and Political: Exploring the Sonic and Social Connections, Reinhard Kopanski (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)14. Medieval Metal in the Literature Classroom, Dean Swinford (Fayetteville State University, USA)15. Spreading the Disease: Teaching a Successful Metal Music Class, Kevin Ebert (University of Dayton, USA)