Apter, J. (2021). Bad Boy Boogie: The true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott. Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Abstract: “Bad Boy Boogie is the first biography to focus on Bon's remarkable gifts as a lyricist, frontman and rascal. In short, the real Bon Scott.” (Source: Allen & Unwin)
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Ayoub, M. L. (2016). O rock progressivo: uma releitura dos mitos nórdicos. Notícias Asgardianas. Boletim do Núcleo de Estudos Vikings e Escandinavos, 11, 106–116.
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Calandra, N. (2016). Metal health: Measuring depression and anxiety within the heavy metal community. Master's thesis, Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center., Ann Arbor.
Abstract: Heavy metal has a long and controversial history. One of the many things it has been blamed for is causing mental illness among its listeners. However, is the music to be blamed or are there other factors coming into play? Numerous studies have been done on various aspects of heavy metal such as its link to violence, but few have been done on mental health within the community. This paper replicated a French study examining levels of depression and anxiety within the community. Forty three participants, all active metal listeners, completed a survey examining various factors such as employment status and education levels, and completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Like the French study, it found that participants had generally low levels of depression and anxiety, but high levels were linked to outside factors. Hopefully, this will help open the floor for more valuable research on the community.
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Kosek, J. (2022). „Raise the Dead”. Transgatunkowe gry z żywiołem tanatycznym w działalności zespołu Hollywood Vampires [Raise the Dead”. Cross-genre games with the thanatic element in the activities of Hollywood Vampires activities of Hollywood Vampires]. In Żywioły i ideologie w narracjach muzyki metalowej [Elements and ideologies in metal music narratives] (pp. 57–76). Krakow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie.
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Laurin, H. (2013). Triumph of the maggots? Valorization of metal in the rock press. In T. Hjelm, K. Kahn-Harris, & M. LeVine (Eds.), Heavy metal: controversies and countercultures (pp. 50–65). Bristol: Equinox.
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López Ramírez Gastón, J. I. (2020). El ritual de lo habitual: apuntes introductorios sobre un rock nacional peruano. Antec: Revista Peruana de Investigación Musical, 4(1).
Abstract: La participación del rock en el desarrollo de comunidades musicales en el Perú es un tema no explorado dentro del ámbito académico. En la construcción de los modelos nacionales y regionales de una musicalidad propia, las músicas populares urbanas de origen extranjero no han sido consideradas; tampoco lo han sido como elementos en la formación de una identidad regida por los parámetros del discurso del Estado-nación. En este trabajo, exploramos las confrontaciones y dicotomías que mantienen el tema del rock como ajeno y a las comunidades musicales del rock nacional, como lejanas.
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Martínez, S. G., & Varas-Díaz, N. (2021). Heavy metal music as communal intervention: Experiences and challenges in the context of the metal-academia dyad in Jaén, Spain. Metal Music Studies, 7(1), 7–26.
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McCoy, A. (2010). Sheriff McCoy: outlaw legend of Hanoi Rocks. New York: Bazillion Points.
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McLaughlin, A. R. (2015). Navigating Gender Inequality in Musical Subgenres. Ann Arbor: East Tennessee State University.
Abstract: This study looks at female musicians performing in subcultural rock genres commonly considered non-gender-conforming, such as punk rock, heavy metal, noise, and experimental. Twenty-four interviews were conducted with female musicians who reflected on their experiences as musicians. Themes emerged on women’s patterns of entry into music, barriers they negotiated while playing, and forces that may push them out of the music scene. Once women gained a musician identity, their gender functioned as a master status. They negotiated sexism when people questioned their abilities, assumed men played better, expected them to fail, held them to conventional gender roles, and sexually objectified them. Normative expectations of women as primary caregivers for children, internalization of criticism, and high personal expectations are considered as factors that contribute to women’s exit from musical careers. This research closes with suggestions for how more women and girls can be socialized into rock music.
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Odell, G. K. (2019). A Night at the Opera: Performance, Theatricality, and Identity in the Music of Queen. Master's thesis, University of Missouri, Ann Arbor.
Abstract: Many discussions of the rock band Queen (vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bassist John Deacon) reference their theatricality, yet few analyze what makes Queen’s music and performances theatrical. Through examining Queen’s theatricality from different angles, this thesis shows the different layers of Queen’s performativity and its relationship to identity.
After an introductory chapter that surveys the literature about Queen, the second chapter of the thesis analyzes the theatricality of Queen’s music from a stylistic basis. The chapter begins by addressing Queen’s camp theatricality through their use of music hall, operetta, and musical theatre styles. It then addresses their drama-based theatricality through their use of opera and film music styles. The third chapter analyzes Queen’s performance of gender and sexuality through their use of different genres. It first discusses Queen’s participation in the genre of glam rock, in which they performed a more feminine persona, but were still understood as heterosexual. Then it explores Queen’s disco and funk influenced music and Mercury’s “castro clone” image as simultaneously a more masculine and more homosexual performance. Finally the chapter analyzes the various rock genres Queen used throughout their career in order to perform heterosexual masculinity, including hard rock, stadium rock, and heavy metal.
The fourth chapter focuses primarily on Mercury’s performance of ethnicity and nationality through his music. Taking into account his history as a first-generation Parsi Zanzibarian who immigrated to London, it first looks at his and Queen’s expressions of “Britishness” through the figure of the British pop dandy and their use of the British national anthem. Then it turns to discussing the influence of Mercury’s Persian and African heritage on select songs. Finally, it examines religion as it relates to cultural identity, specifically Mercury’s Zoroastrian heritage and the ways he used the aesthetics of heavy metal to articulate his place within that religion. The fifth chapter concludes the thesis by taking a holistic view of how all of these layers of performativity operated simultaneously, endowing Queen’s music with a deep and complex sense of theatricality.
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