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Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation.

McKinnon, Colin.

Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages)

Intro -- Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: Analysing Insanity -- Goethe vs. Rammstein: Who is Allowed to Play with Madness? The Influence of Musical Taste on Prejudice against Heavy Metal Lyrics -- Death and Life: The Role of Music and the Others -- Textual Analysis of Song Lyrics Adopting a Mental Health Diagnostic Standard as Method -- PART 2: Disparate Disciplines: Theoretical Applications of Madness in Heavy Metal -- Two Steps past Insanity: The Expression of Aggression in Death Metal Music -- Can Progressive Metal's Narrative Inform Social Stigma Theory? Pain of Salvation's The Perfect Element Parts 1 and 2 as Examples -- Hysteric Desire: Sexual Positions, Sonic Subjectivity and Gender Play in Glam Metal -- PART 3: More Madness in the Metal Method: A Spectrum Disorder of Theoretical and Applied Research Approaches -- No Method in the Madness? The Problem of the Cultural Reading in Robert Walser's Running with the Devil: Power Madness and Gender in Heavy Metal Music and Recent Metal Studies -- Qualtitative Research in Understanding the Metal Community -- Heavy Metal, Identity Work and Social Transitions: Implicaitons for Young People's Well Being in the Australian Context -- PART 4: Ripping it Up: Metal as a Symptom of a Civilised and Aggressive Disorder -- Heavy Metal Rituals and the Civilising Process -- Cycles of Metal and Cycles of Male Aggression: Ageing and the Changing Aggressive Impulse -- Metal Disorder, Metal Disturbance -- PART 5: Challenging Perceptions on Metal and Suicide -- War Inside My Head: Metal, Mental Illness and Psychic Energy -- Suicide, Metal Music and Expectancy Theory -- Emo Saved My Life: Challenging the Mainstream Discourse of Mental Illness around My Chemical Romance -- Does Death and Suicide Sound Like the Music You Hear?. PART 6: Positively Mad: Black Metal Health and the Construction of Identity -- Playing with Madness in the Forest of Shadows: Dissonance, Deviance and Non-Conformity in the Black Metal Scene -- Lord Satan's Secret Rites and Satanism as Self-Therapy: The Creation of a Masculinity Gender Identity within Black Metal -- 'A Furore Normannorum, Libera Nos Domine!' A Short History of Going Berserk in Scandanavian Literature and Heavy Metal.

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