Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology — Who Defines a Genre?
What appears to be a disagreement about musical sound may also be a struggle over identity, authenticity, and cultural authority.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology by Deena Weinstein as an entry point, this episode investigates how artists, audiences, media organizations, critics, and institutions collectively construct a musical genre.
Weinstein argues that heavy metal possesses recognizable sonic, visual, and verbal codes. Those codes establish a durable center while permitting contested subgenres to…
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