About this title: Heavy metal is a violent, head-bashing music complete, in its live performances, with its own arena of rage and celebration, the mosh pit. It is a music in the red corner of society, loud, angry, and, to a well-tuned ear, practically intolerable. And yet, the art form radiates a message about American adolescents well worth examining and comprehending: Its devotees, primarily adolescent boys, are alienated from their world and angry about its future. Heavy metal speaks throbbingly the message of rage, loneliness, and cynicism. In this sensitive book, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett synthesizes the ...
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Description: Very Good. 0813328136 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Binding: PBO,
Publisher: Westview, Boulder
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813328133ISBN:0813328136
Description: Very good; Collectible. By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. This book was designed more as a sociology text than a light popular culture item. Still, I find it interesting. Arnett attempts to explain the fascination with heavy metal music and the kinds of personalities that are drawn to it. A clinical eye turned on a profoundly non-c; inical subject. 196 pages with index and bibliography. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WESTVIEW PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780813328133ISBN:0813328136
Description: New. This book helps us gain insight into a segment of the youth culture that most adults find strange, if not bizarre. This extremely will-written book provides the reader with insight into the psychology of metalheads and is sprinkled with many case exa... read more
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