Heavy metal : the music and its culture by Deena Weinstein

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First time in paperback: The definitive study of heavy metal culture that "does for metal what Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces did for the Sex Pistols" -Chicago Sun-Times Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also... read more

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"Heavy metal: pimply, prole, putrid, unchic, unsophisticated, anti-intellectual (but impossibly pretentious), dismal, abysmal, terrible, horrible, and stupid music, barely music at all: death music, dead music, the beaten boogie, the dance of defeat and decay: the huh?

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