'Hard and Heavy': Gender and Power in a heavy metal music subculture

Placing Masculinities and Geography

“…Since 2000, the journal has published articles that examine a range of issues, including the uneasy masculine spaces constructed through the work of the charitable 'Big Brothers' organisation in Canada (Hopkins, 2000); the (re)construction of oppressive gender relations in Brisbane, Australia's heavy metal music scene (Krenske & Mckay, 2000); the relationship between the (masculinist) state, masculinity and policing in the USA (Herbert, 2001); the historical origins of a localised gender division of labour found in Burkina Faso (Freidberg, 2001); the construction of masculine identities in Irvine California based on perceptions of women as fearful and endangered (Day, 2001); the connections between sports, gender (especially masculinity), nation and class in Finland during the period before the Second World War (Tervo, 2001); the relationship between masculinity, (dis)ability and British colonial discourse in Africa, circa 1929 (Myers, 2002); and white, working-class men's sense of themselves as masculine workers in the context of debates emphasising a growing 'crisis' of masculinity in the UK (McDowell, 2002;also see McDowell, 2000).…”

Queer punx: young women in the Newcastle hardcore space

“…Punk ethos and the hardcore music scene Some studies have considered the engagement of women with 'heavy' music genres including hardcore (e.g., Dawes 2012;Purchla 2011;Ryan 2008;Krenske and McKay 2000;Leblanc 1999;Jacques 2001;Tsistos 1999). Other studies have either directly or indirectly addressed the interface of queer and punk (e.g., Taylor 2008Taylor , 2012aTaylor , 2013Halberstam 2003;du Plessis and Chapman 1997;Brett, Wood, and Thomas 1994;Cooper 1996;DeChaine 1997;Fuchs 1998;Peters 2010;Schwandt 2009;Shoemaker 2010;Wiedlack 2011;Wilson 2008;Griffin 2012;Ensminger 2010).…”

The Price of Rebellion: Gender Boundaries in the Death Metal Scene

“…Previous academic research on gender interactions in the heavy metal scene reveals an imbalance of power between men and women (Krenske & McKay 2000). Death metal, an extreme form of heavy metal, is arguably the most male-centered of any type of popular music.…”