Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. (book reviews)
Nation, The, August, 1993 by Layton, Lynne
RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. By Robert Walser. Wesleyan University. 214 pp. $39.50. Paper $15.95.
In the eighties, classic heavy metal splintered into the subgenres glam and thrash, which widened metal's audience and allowed it to take over the lion's share of mass music sales. Despite popular success, metal has traditionally been a pariah musical genre, pounced on by many left-wing rock critics, right-wing demagogues and worried parental units convinced that when you play the music backward subliminal messages force their well-adjusted children to kill themselves. As Robert Walser, a musicologist, and Deena Weinstein,-a sociologist, argue, such emotional clashes over heavy metal mark it as a site of contemporary...
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