Providing an extensive overview of the music, fashion, films, and philosophies behind the movement, this inclusive encyclopedia chronicles the history and development of heavy metal, including sub-movements such as death metal, speed metal, grindcore, and hair metal.
List of Entries Guide to Related Topics IntroductionPreface Acknowledgments Timeline The Encyclopedia Heavy Metal Music: An Introduction Entries A-ZThe Encyclopedia Selected Bibliography Index
William Phillips is an independent scholar. He has written extensively on music, technology, and culture. He is currently at New York University, writing his PhD on digital technology and music culture, where he teaches courses on media, communication, and culture. He also works on a variety of musical projects as a guitarist and producer out of his Brooklyn home recording studio. Brian Cogan is a professor who has written extensively on music and popular culture as well as music criticism. He received his PhD in media ecology in 2002 from New York University. He teaches at Molloy College and has taught at New York University and the College of Staten Island. Cogan is the author of Greenwood's Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture (2006).
[I]nformation provided by Cogan (The Encyclopedia of Punk) and
independent music scholar Phillips is enlightening and reveals the
personalities driving the rise, fall, resurrection, and subsistence
of profiled bands.
*Library Journal*
Phillips (digital technology and music culture, New York U.) and
Cogan (media ecology, Molloy College) have written this
encyclopedia on heavy metal to define the specific boundaries for
this musical genre while being as broad and inclusive to as many
performers as possible. Entries offer biographies, discographies
and critical analysis of bands and solo performers as well as
books, films, festivals and record labels that are considered
essential to the genre. General audiences will appreciate
descriptions of sub-genres such as grindcore, grunge and death
metal, and artifacts of the culture such as body piercings, leather
and even the video game Guitar Hero are also explained.
*Reference & Research Book News*
We know what you are thinking, 'Oh no, another metal encyclopedia
that will be inaccurate and useless'. However, this book is first
of it's kind that actually works. The authors researched, they
learned the metal scene and they debated on the content before
deciding on including it. This work is an incredible collection of
information that will be of use to the seasoned metal fan as well
as the uninitiated. Written to be a college level textbook for a
music class, this book is more 'grown up' than a lot of other
similar works. . . . Overall, the diversity of subject matter and
the bands included paint a fairly complete picture of the world of
heavy metal. The authors have lived up to their introductory
statement about being authentic and they have given the metal world
the first truly worthwhile work of this type. The Encyclopedia of
Heavy Metal Music delves deep into the world of metal while
allowing the novice to understand what they are experiencing. We
can only hope that William Phillips and Brian Cogan may one day
work together again and write more on the subject that is our
lives, Heavy Metal.
*Metal Life Magazine*
More than 350 entries ranging from several paragraphs to several
pages in length provide capsulated biographies of bands and their
key members and include discographies. The authors also include
entries for cultural topics such as fashion and metal and Moshing
and metal subgenres like Death metal and Grunge. More than 50
black-and-white images of performers and metal fans supplement the
text. There are other reference books on this topic, including The
Guinness Book of Heavy Metal (1995) and The Rough Guide to Heavy
Metal (2005), among others, making this volume a well-researched
update on the genre.
*Booklist*
Most notable is its inclusiveness of the artists and related topics
that best embody heavy metal's broad context. The introduction
alone can assist scholars with understanding the music's
complexities and the elements informing its practitioners. . . .
Band entries conclude with complete discographies that enumerate an
artist's creative output, followed by a list of compilation
releases (i.e., greatest hits)--a beneficial approach for
comprehending a band's body of work. Summing Up: Recommended.
Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.
*Choice*
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