While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has
produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the …

Mod youth culture began in the postwar era as way for young people to reconfigure
modernity after the chaos of World War II. Through archival research, oral history interviews …

Prefaces can serve a variety of functions. We would like this one to speak in somewhat
personal terms about how we came up with the idea for and embarked on the creation of this …

This comparative dissertation explores the new moral politics of authenticity emerging in the
Western world in the post-1960s era. Examining the development of the popular music …

This second edition of the history of rock's heaviest band gives you even more reasons to
rock! This all-star tribute features many of today's top rock journalists from Rolling Stone …

This chapter describes scholarship on international magazine publishing from 1990 to the
present. International magazine and journal periodical publishing has a long history: At the …

Though seldom mentioned and certainly not celebrated, one of the most important of
contributors to metal studies is Robert Duncan. Born in Wisconsin in 1952, today Duncan …

This article locates the roots of “punk rock” in the “hippie” counterculture of Detroit, circa
1967–1970. It opens with an intellectual biography of John Sinclair, emphasizing how he …