Document Type
Review
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Since the appearance in the early 1990s of Deena Weinstein’s Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology and Robert Walser’s Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, there has been a relative dearth of serious, book length inquiries into this often maligned musical form. Keith Harris-Kahn’s Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge offers not only to rectify this situation but more specifically to perform a cultural analysis of those much more aesthetically radical and socially marginalized metal subgenres—death, doom, and black metal as well as grind and metalcore—that have emerged since the PMRC induced “moral panic” of the late 1980s briefly drew mainstream metal bands like Judas Priest and Twisted Sister to the attention of media pundits, politicians, and academics.
Repository Citation
Inniss, Scott. "Review of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, by Keith Harris-Kahn." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/15