Heavy Metal Youth Identities: Researching the Musical Empowerment of Youth Transitions and Psychosocial Wellbeing
Drawing on repeat interviews with metal youth, the book examines why they were first attracted to metal during high school; how they used metal music and identities as coping strategies; and ways that their metal affiliations took on further significance for helping them make important decisions about what to do with their lives post-school.
Publication Date:
2018-10-01Book Series:
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Chapters:
- Prelims
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1: Becoming Metal
- Chapter 2 ‘Metal is My Drug’: The Comforts and Pleasures of Listening to Metal
- Chapter 3 ‘It’s True, Metal gives You Power when You’rePowerless’: Embodying Metal Identities for Social Protection
- Chapter 4 ‘That Sense of Metal Community is Great’: Narrative Constructions of Acceptance and Belonging
- Part 2: Being Metal
- Chapter 5 ‘No Shit I Wanna be a Rock Star, but for RealYou Need a Plan B’: Heavy Metal Dreams Reprised
- Chapter 6 ‘Dude, You’re Doing it, You’re Living the Dream’: From Dreams to Reality, What Does it Take?
- Chapter 7 ‘Mum Hates it, She Thinks all Metal Dudes areEvil’: Practical Wisdom for Parents and Others
- Chapter 8 ‘It Sucks that People Get the Wrong Idea aboutMetal’: Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
