Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation

Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Cover......Page 2
Advisory Board......Page 3
ISBN......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
PART 1: Analysing Insanity......Page 16
Goethe vs. Rammstein: Who is Allowed to Play with Madness? The Influence of Musical Taste on Prejudice against Heavy Metal Lyrics......Page 18
Death and Life: The Role of Music and the Others......Page 30
Textual Analysis of Song Lyrics Adopting a Mental Health Diagnostic Standard as Method......Page 40
PART 2: Disparate Disciplines: Theoretical Applications of Madness in Heavy Metal......Page 48
Two Steps past Insanity: The Expression of Aggression in Death Metal Music......Page 50
Can Progressive Metal\'s Narrative Inform Social Stigma Theory? Pain of Salvation\'s The Perfect Element......Page 56
Hysteric Desire: Sexual Positions, Sonic Subjectivity and Gender Play in Glam Metal......Page 66
PART 3: More Madness in the Metal Method: A Spectrum Disorder of Theoretical and Applied Research Approaches......Page 76
No Method in the Madness? The Problem......Page 78
Qualtitative Research in Understanding the Metal Community......Page 88
Heavy Metal, Identity Work and Social Transitions: Implicaitons for Young People\'s Well Being in the Australian Context......Page 94
PART 4: Ripping it Up: Metal as a Symptom of a Civilised and Aggressive Disorder......Page 106
Heavy Metal Rituals and the Civilising Process......Page 108
Cycles of Metal and Cycles of Male Aggression: Ageing and the Changing Aggressive Impulse......Page 116
Metal Disorder, Metal Disturbance......Page 126
PART 5: Challenging Perceptions on Metal and Suicide......Page 134
War Inside My Head: Metal, Mental Illness and Psychic Energy......Page 136
Suicide, Metal Music and Expectancy Theory......Page 148
Emo Saved My Life: Challenging the Mainstream Discourse of Mental Illness around My Chemical Romance......Page 158
Does Death and Suicide Sound Like the Music You Hear?......Page 170
PART 6: Positively Mad: Black Metal Health and the Construction of Identity......Page 182
Playing with Madness in the Forest of Shadows: Dissonance, Deviance and Non-Conformity in the Black Metal Scene......Page 184
Lord Satan\'s Secret Rites and Satanism as Self-Therapy: The Creation of a Masculinity Gender Identity within Black Metal......Page 192
\'A Furore Normannorum, Libera Nos Domine!\' A Short History of Going Berserk in Scandanavian Literature and Heavy Metal......Page 200