Women And Femme Voices In Metal Music Culture And Scholarship Feminist Strategies Of Resistance | Music

Where are the women and femmes in metal music culture and scholarship? What are the modes of address and engagement when as Laina Dawes stated ‘you love a music form that doesn’t love you back’? This interdisciplinary edited collection focuses on centring women and femme voices in metal music culture and scholarship fostering an intersectional feminist position to analyse the varying perspectives and experiences. There has been a trend which has also been acknowledged amongst feminist metal scholars of sidelining and sometimes devaluing those voices that are so valid and important in a male-dominated music culture and scholarship. Contributors challenge and rectify this by: centring intersectional gendered identity; elevating women’s voices and musical and other types of labour; and foregrounding trauma herstory and queering within metal music culture and scholarship. The audience for this edited collection is students and scholars of metal music studies popular music studies musicology performance studies gender queer and decolonial studies cultural studies ethnography feminism trauma and herstory. The metal music press and metalheads around the world will also be interested in this convocation. |Women and Femme Voices in Metal Music Culture and Scholarship Feminist Strategies of Resistance | Music