Prelims

Karl Spracklen (Leeds Beckett University, UK)

Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

ISBN: 978-1-83867-444-1, eISBN: 978-1-83867-443-4

Publication date: 11 May 2020

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Spracklen, K. (2020), "Prelims", Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation (Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-vii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-443-420201001

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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

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Karl Spracklen

Leeds Beckett University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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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.