Damage Incorporated: Metallica And The Production Of Musica

Description: Exploring one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, 'Damage Incorporated' presents an interdisciplinary study of a range of topics that intersect in the music and cultural influence of Metallica. Specifically focusing on identity in popular music as a set of performing conventions, Glenn Pillsbury explores Metallica's place as a constant impoetus within certain conventions of genre, race and gender. Engaging broadly with larger questions of the politics of culture, American history, musical analysis and the character of musical discourses in the context of commerce, 'Damage Incorporated' sets a new standard in the study of class, gender and race issues in popular music. For students of cultural studies, mass media and music, this will be essential reading. Table of Contents: Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction I. Thrashing All Around Rhythm, the Body, and the Genre of Thrash Metal II. Death Greets Me Warm The 'Fade to Black' Paradigm III. Thinking Man's Metal Whiteness, Detachment, and the Performance of Musical Complexity IV. The Road and the Mode Musical Tourism and Ethnicity Roaming V. Shape Shift, Mutiny in the Air The Sell-Out Question and Popular Music Histories Epilogue Notes Selected Discography Selected Bibliography Index Author Biography: Glenn T. Pillsbury is a recent Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA and a rising star in the field of popular music studies. He is the author of the 'Metallica' chapter in the Encyclopedia Britannica, a founding member of the editorial board of the online music journal ECHO, and a regular presenter of papers at major scholarly meetings in music and the arts.