Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World

Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene, eds.

Collection of essays on heavy metal music as a global and transnational phenomenon.

Part 1. Introduction: The Global Conquest of an Outcast Genre Affective Overdrive, Scene Dynamics, and Identity in the Global Metal Scene / Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene 3 The Globalization of Metal / Deena Weinstein 34 Part 2. Metal, Gender, Modernity "A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty": Masculinity, Male Camaraderie, and Chinese Heavy Metal in the 1990s / Cynthia P. Wong 63 Unleashed in the East: Metal Music, Masculinity, and "Malayness" in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore / Jeremy Wallach 86 Part 3. Metal and the Nation Electronic and Affective Overdrive: Tropes of Transgression in Nepal's Heavy Metal Scene / Paul D. Greene 109 Otherwise National: Locality and Power in the Art of Sepultura / Idelber Avelar 135 Part 4. Metal and Extremist Ideologies The Marketing of Anglo-Identity in the North American Hatecore Metal Industry / Sharon Hochhauser 161 Musical Style, Ideology, and Mythology in Norwegian Black Metal / Ross Hagen 180 "You Are from Israel and That is Enough to Hate You Forever": Racism, Globalization, and Play within the Global Extreme Metal Scene / Keith Kahn-Harris 200 Part 5. Metal and the Music Industry Arenas of the Imagination: Global Tours and the Heavy Metal Concert in the 1970s / Steve Waksman 227 Thunder in the Far East: The Heavy Metal Industry in 1990s Japan / Kei Kawano and Shuhei Hosokawa 247 Part 6. Small Nation/Small Scene Case Studies Metal in a Micro Island State: An Insider's Perspective / Albert Bell 271 Noisy Crossroads: Metal Scenes in Slovenia / Rajko Muršic 294 Nako: The Metal in the Marrow of Easter Island Music / Dan Bendrups 313 Afterword / Robert Walser 333 Acknowledgments 337 Works Cited 339 Contributors 367 Index 371