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  • Hardcore Is Everything

    Music, Identities, and Ideologies

    by Edward Banchs ...
    Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
    Hardcore Is Everything: Music, Identities and Ideologies provides a scholarly account of hardcore, as both a musical style and subculture, from a longtime fan and critical observer.Born as the bastard child of punk rock, hardcore has since become the ultimate rebellion to the status quo. Fast, aggressive and confrontational, hardcore has lived on as a part of the musical underground for over five ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • Scream for Me, Africa!

    Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa

    by Edward Banchs ...
    Series series Advances in Metal Music and Culture
    Scream for Me Africa! examines the hard rock and metal scenes in five African countries: Botswana, Togo, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Banchs spent significant time in each country interviewing musicians, producers and fans to create vivid pictures of each of these rarely discussed scenes. These scenes are 'a disruption of the norm, a disruption of what we have come to expect from Africa and rock ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Defiant Sounds

    Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

    by Esther Clinton, Sage Bond, Pasqualina Eckerström, Kobi Farhi, Kevin Fellezs, Manuel Gagneux, Susana González-Martínez, Didier Goossens, Amine Hamma, Susane Hécate0, Adil Johan1, Mark LeVine2, Paula Rowe3, Brian Trott4, Azmyl Yusof5, Jeremy Wallach7, Daniel Nevárez Araújo9, Augustinus Aryo Lukisworo0, Manuela Belén Calvo1, Oki Rahadianto Sutopo2, Anthony J. Thibodeau3, Tshomarelo "Vulture" Mosaka4, Edward Banchs5, Nelson Varas-Díaz6 ...
    Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
    Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • On Extremity

    From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

    by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Alixida Ramos-Pibernus, Anna Chilewska, Robin Purves, Jason Wallin, Jeffrey Podoshen, Ross Hagen, Vivek Venkatesh, Bradley J. Nelson, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack0, Luis Javier Cintrón-Gutiérrez1, Niall W.R. Scott2, Edward Banchs4, Prof. Sheilla R. Madera5, Professor Bryan A. Bardine6 ...
    Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
    On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • Such Great Heights

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

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  • Kids of the Black Hole

    Punk Rock Postsuburban California

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    Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notorious as that of New York City, emerged full-throated in 1977 and boasted bands like The Germs, X, and Black Flag. This book explores how, in the land of the Beach Boys, punk rock took hold.As a teenager, Dewar MacLeod witnessed firsthand the emergence of ... Read more

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