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Allain, F. (2018). Musiques extrêmes, sexe et orientation sexuelle: de 1970 ? nos jours. Ph.D. thesis, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
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Popoff, M. (2018). Iron Maiden: album by album. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press.
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Svetlova, A. (2018). The poet who failed his best play? Podmiot mówiący w utworach zespołu Nightwish wobec paradygmatu romantycznego [The poet who failed his best play? Speaking subject in the tracks of Nightwish in the face of the romantic paradigm]. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia de Cultura, 10(3).
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Almer, J., & Ondřej, D. (2018). “666 XXX”: Sexploitation in Czech and Slovak Black Metal and Porno-Gore Grind. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo (Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology), XLVI(274), 199–214.
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St-Laurent, M. - R., & Smialek, E. (2018). Unending Eruptions: White-Collar Metal Appropriations of Classical Complexity, Experimentation, Elitism, and Cultural Legitimization. In C. Scotto, K. Smith, & J. Brackett (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (pp. 378–399). Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
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Pack, C. (2018). Hellbound in El Salvador: Heavy Metal as a Philosophy of Life in Central America. Ph.D. thesis, Johns Hopkins University, Ann Arbor.
Abstract: Heavy Metal in El Salvador has been a driving force of the underground culture since the Civil War in the 1980s. Over time, it has grown into a large movement that encompasses musicians, producers, promoters, media outlets and the international exchange of music, ideas and live shows. As a music based around discontent with society at large, Heavy Metal attempts to question the status quo through an intellectual exploration of taboo subjects and the presentation of controversial live shows. As an international discourse, Heavy Metal speaks to ideas of both socio-political and individual power based around a Philosophy of Life that exalts personal freedoms and personal responsibility to oneself and their society. As a community, it represents a ‘rage’ group, as defined by Peter Sloterdijk, that questions Western epistemologies and the doctrines of Christian Philosophy. This is done in different ways, by different genres, but at the heart is the changing of macro- (international) discourses into micro- (local) discourses that focus on those issues important to the geographic specificity of the region.
In the case of Black Metal, born in Norway, it is interpreted in El Salvador through the similarities between the doctrines of Hitler and those of the most famous dictator in the country’s history – General Maximiliano Hernandez – and then applied, ironically, to the local phenomena of the Salvadoran Street Gangs (MS-13 and 18s) and their desired extermination. It is also done through the re-interpreting of folk metal in the local phenomenon of tribal metal that reinterprets the indigenous through the lens of modern society and heavy metal’s ideas of power. Finally, the Salvadoran metalhead adapts the genre’s vulgarity and dark humor to fuel their own systems of dealing with harsh repression and existing within a society that seems to have no place for them. At the bottom though, much more than a community, Heavy Metal in El Salvador is a source of fraternalismo that utilizes the Philosophy of Life to bind its members together and to provide them a means by which to express their personal freedoms within a society that would happily see them limited.
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Coulombe, A. P. (2018). Burakku Metaru: Japanese Black Metal Music and the 'Glocalization' of a Transgressive Sub-culture. Master's thesis, University of Arizona, Ann Arbor.
Abstract: This thesis will demonstrate how Black Metal music became established in Japan, how it evolved, and how musicians situate themselves in a globalized form of community. It is a study of how Japanese Black Metal functions in the tensions between globalization and localization, a term called “glocalization” (Victor Roudometof 10). Japanese Black Metal is globalized around a set of rules and ideas, a term Deena Weinstein uses to describe Heavy Metal music called “codes” (Heavy Metal the Music 100). Additionally, as this music is localized, it reveals how many Japanese musicians express uniquely cynical viewpoints of religion and established authority using these globalized codes. Due to its anti-Christian and brutal history in other countries, Black Metal is seen as transgressive against mainstream society. Through electronic ethnographic research with Japanese Black Metal artists, this thesis finally examines how Black Metal is at once desirable yet also transgressive in Japanese society, a country with a comparatively low population of Christians.
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Busey, S. D. (2018). Parental Advisory-Explicit Content: The Parents Music Resource Center, Conservative Music Censorship, and the Protection of Children. Ann Arbor: University of Nevada.
Abstract: Historians have long overlooked and misunderstood the Parents Music Resource Center, an activist group formed in 1985 to correct perceived excesses in heavy metal music. Scholars have focused their analyses almost exclusively on the First Amendment implications of the group’s actions, largely dismissing the PMRC in the process. This thesis argues that by expanding the historical analysis of the group to include the social and political climate of previous generations and of the 1980s, the self-stated goals of the PMRC, and a musicological discussion of heavy metal and why the group specifically targeted this genre, we can see that the PMRC was in fact an incredibly influential sociopolitical activist group that is representative of the political shift in the United States in the 1980s.
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Carew, F. (2018). The Guitar Voice of Randy Rhoads. Master's thesis, Wayne State University, Ann Arbor.
Abstract: Randy Rhoads was an influential rock guitarist whose synthesis of musical influences had an impact on heavy metal. He developed a classically influenced guitar style that inspired new developments in the guitar’s virtuosic technique and harmonic and melodic language. The sound of heavy metal can be traced directly to his guitar style. Yet no definitive studies have been conducted on his guitar voice, synthesis of musical influences, or contribution to heavy metal music. This thesis is the first study to define the musical influences that make up Rhoads’s innovative guitar voice and playing style. It examines his early childhood, formal training, and influences, honing his skills in Quiet Riot, mastering his skills on Blizzard of Ozz , and mastering his skills on Diary of a Madman . It provides a look at his guitar voice through his adaptation, synthesis, and implementation of musical influences by conducting a detailed musical analysis of the formal, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic aspects of the songs on Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.
The examination of his guitar voice and playing style is provided by the following materials: CDs, DVDs, books, scholarly journals, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, and transcriptions of songs on Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that Rhoads’s guitar voice and playing style are classically influenced and a synthesis of different musical styles. It advocates that his playing style pushed the hard rock music envelope create a new approach to guitar playing that led to a more refined version of the music. It suggests that Rhoads’s musical approach and mindset in the 1980s: classical-style virtuosity, harmony and melody, and acoustic guitar was important to the development of the heavy metal sound, therefore placing him in the historical annals of popular music.
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Andrew Klein. (2018). Blood, Frets and Tears.
Abstract: “Blood, Frets and Tears” is the exploration of history's gifted guitar players: our Guitar Heroes. From the swing of Charlie Christian's bebop guitar and the psychedelic rock of Jimi Hendrix, to the majestic fire of Eddie Van Halen, join us for a momentous and joyous musical trip in the most definitive celluloid document ever filmed on the sound and soul of the electric guitar. (Amazon.com) /
Director: Andrew Klein; Writers: Andrew KleinBarry Kolsky(story);
Stars: Michael Angelo Batio, Jennifer Batten, Jack Blades, Carlos, Davazo, Lita Ford, Paul Gilbert, Brad Gillis, Bruce Kulick, George Lynch, Tony MacAlpine, Billy Sheehan, and others. / Production Companies: Cut My Flix; Lucky 13 Cinematic; Velocity Films; Distributors: Cut My Flix (2019) (USA) (video); Velocity Films (2019) (USA) (video).
Keywords: Documentary film, Dokken, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Jimi Hendrix, Lita Ford, Lynch Mob, Mr. Big, Paul Gilbert, Quiet Riot, Racer X
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