Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality

Heesch, Florian; Scott, Niall

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“…As one 29-year-old woman stated, “With my jacket, I can block out all the shit going on in the world. When I put it on, there’s no Brexit, no Trump, no coronavirus.” Heesch and Scott (2016) note that female heavy metal fans often have to work hard to gain respect from a male-dominated scene. For this reason, they may give preference to expressing musical, rather than sociopolitical knowledge, in their jacket choices.…”

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The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective

O’Hagan¹

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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The battle jacket—a sleeveless denim jacket customized with band patches—is a staple item of clothing for heavy metal fans. This paper brings together social semiotic analysis and ethnographic insights to explore three different types of battle jacket: the “classic” jacket, the “tribute” jacket, and the “modern” jacket. It discovers that, despite the jacket’s assortment of bold images, colours, typography, and symmetrical arrangements, owners, in fact, consider aesthetics as secondary to the jacket’s function as a “channeler” of memories, relationships, beliefs, and ideologies. For each owner, the jacket serves a unique purpose, whether acting as a biography of their musical life (“classic” jacket), representing social ties and connections with loved ones (“tribute” jacket), or promoting particular political and religious beliefs (“modern” jacket). Through a multimodal ethnographic approach, battle jackets are revealed to be sophisticated and multifaceted artefacts with a range of sociocultural functions embedded in a rich history.

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The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective

O’Hagan¹

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…It is not surprising that the world of the music genre heavy metal has found the Arctic. Contrary to the often-narrated public perception locating heavy metal within a world of violence, death and devil worship and depicting it as youth subculture (Chaker 2014), heavy metal has evolved to be an artistic musical expression with a plethora of different subgenres, different themes, styles and modes of production while having generated its own field of studies: heavy metal studies (Bartosch 2011; Heesch and Höpflinger 2014). Anthropologist Sam Dunn summarised the different forms of heavy metal in the documentary Metal: a headbanger's journey (Dunn and McFadyen 2005) and the 12-episode series Metal evolution (Dunn and McFadyen 2011–2014).…”

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Black and Viking metal: how two extreme music genres depict, construct and transfigure the (sub-)Arctic

Sellheim

2016

Polar Record

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For centuries the Arctic has served as a stage of imagination and has inspired countless artists in different ways. Also the music genre of heavy metal frequently utilises the ‘north’ and the Arctic. This paper briefly explores how two heavy metal subgenres, black metal and Viking metal, approach and utilise narratives associated with the ‘north’. By using lyrics of black and Viking metal bands, different forms of utilisation come to the fore, ranging from narratives of death to the raging Northman. Also polar exploration finds musical expression and is a source for generating extreme conceptual settings.

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Chapter 5: How Female is the Future? Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music

d’Hont¹

2021

Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music

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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality

Cited by 60 publications

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The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective

The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective

Black and Viking metal: how two extreme music genres depict, construct and transfigure the (sub-)Arctic

Chapter 5: How Female is the Future? Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music

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