Metal Studies? Cultural Research in the Heavy Metal Scene

Given its popularity, visibility and complexity, the scholarly study of heavy metal needs no justification. Like other popular music cultures, heavy metal is a contested and controversial marker of both cultural resistance and subcultural conformity, offering a resource that enables individualised identity formation and collective practices of association, consumption and commodification that are now global in character and complexity. At the same time, when compared to research on punk, hip hop and other scenes, the study of ...