Table of Contents

Foreword; General Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Birmingham; Chapter 2 The Dichotomy of Syntax in the Music of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin; Chapter 3 The Dichotomy of Aesthetics in Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin; Chapter 4 Continuity, Development and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal; Chapter 5 Assimilation and Stability;

About the Author

Dr Andrew L. Cope, Music School, Staffordshire Performing Arts

Reviews

'For many years popular music studies has been dominated by texts which fail to address the unique combination of musical sounds, timbres and structures that distinguishes heavy metal from hard rock. Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music fills that gap and offers researchers and students alike the opportunity to explore and enjoy an engaging musical investigation into the birth and development of the heavy metal sound. ... This is an exciting book and one which will open up new avenues of investigation for researchers and students alike. It is warmly recommended.' From the Foreword by Sheila Whiteley, Emeritus Professor at Salford University, UK, author of The Space Between the Notes: Rock and Counterculture (1992) and Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Gender (2005) ’This fine book puts Black Sabbath’s massive influence on the genre into musical perspective, as well as historical perspective... not only the best book ever written on the influence of Black Sabbath in Heavy Metal, but a fine, intelligent study of the genre as a whole.’ live4metal.org 'Cope's book is on heavy metal as music and as such it is an important contribution to a field which has previously been mostly studied through subcultural readings.' Popular Music