Music at the Extremes by Scott A. Wilson

Author:Scott A. Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Turisas (photograph by Stephanie Cabral, courtesy Century Media Records Ltd.).

Turisas (photograph by Steve Brown, courtesy Century Media Records Ltd.).

While the images of Turisas and their fans presented in the video montage for “Battle Metal” are constructed by the band, video producers and industry executives, the video is revealing in its depiction of Turisas’s audience as inclusive of both men and women. The proportion of female performers and fans of heavy metal has been a contentious area of discussion at least since Walser’s intervention in Running with the Devil. Walser identifies music videos as a site of gender management in metal and suggests that the incorporation of romantic themes and the softening of metal musicians’ images contributed to the appeal of hair metal to female fans in the 1980s.20 Further, Wallach et al., argue that

Inasmuch as heavy metal responds to feelings of frustration by offering thrilling experiences of transgressive empowerment, it appeals particularly to men who, by virtue of types of traditional gender socialization, expect themselves to be more powerful than modern society expects them to be.21

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